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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 39 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Is it absurd that the maker of a tech product controls it by writing it a list of plain language guidelines? or am I out of touch?

[–] ebu@awful.systems 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

simply ask the word generator machine to generate better words, smh

this is actually the most laughable/annoying thing to me. it betrays such a comprehensive lack of understanding of what LLMs do and what "prompting" even is. you're not giving instructions to an agent, you are feeding a list of words to prefix to the output of a word predictor

in my personal experiments with offline models, using something like "below is a transcript of a chat log with XYZ" as a prompt instead of "You are XYZ" immediately gives much better results. not good results, but better

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago

it's all so anti-precision

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

simply ask the word generator machine to generate better words, smh

Butterfly man: "Is this recursive self-improvement"

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