Except the prayers to Thoth are a bit more respectful, lol.

lol, now that you mention it.

Same shit, different millennium.

I find it absolutely fascinating how the LLM prayers resemble ritual incantations to invoke divine powers from various ancient religions.

“You are a world class expert in all domains.”

Lolwut.

And then some grown-ass adult answering in all seriousness:

“fun fact: role prompting doesn't work anymore

It actually decreases output quality bc the model wastes compute on matching persona instead of problem solving”

What the hell?!

Go buy yourself a freaking tamagotchi, boys! You’ll learn to practise a modicum of care for something.

FFS, this timeline is the absolute dumbest…

So much of AI use tends to be wishful thinking anyway, why not?

I would still be ashamed

Well pmarca is an self admitted p-zombie.

I wouldn't compare llms to any sort of useful physical tool. I don't have to plead with my screwdriver to not cam out screw heads, I just need to be cognizant of how I am using it. I don't have to beg my hammer "please don't hit my thumb", I just need to not be an ape/buzzed while swinging it. I respect physical tools and their use in part because they do work and in part because improper operation will cause you to have a bad time. Nobody at Estwing has publicly said "well mate, we're going to capture all your hammering and rent it back to you". Nobody at Bridgeport gleefully reported that their tooling will cause massive unemployment because it is so good.

I do not respect LLMs because LLMs might still kill you but only in the stupidest way possible, and because their main proponents have no respect for anything and this has been made painfully obvious over and over again. Would using them allow me to craft better sneers about them? Perhaps, but I shouldn't need to do that because the people at the top of these things are evil and while that alone should be enough, their biggest boosters are credulous idiots and many of them were already awful well before we were playing enterprise pretend on the scale of billions of dollars.

In conclusion, I would ask software people to stop comparing shit software to useful tools.

Never hallucinate or make anything up.

I know you already mentioned this part in your post, but I'm still completely taken aback that it's just in there like this - as though it wouldn't be in the system prompt if it stood a chance of working.

If I were the kind of person to be shilling LLMs and posting prompts, I would still be ashamed to share this one. It's a tacit condemnation of both the tool itself and the tool posting it.

(h/t Matt Roszak)

Not that I know what to do with a break without internet access, but I'm told that our ancestors found ways to entertain themselves.

• our esteemed admin @self is offline because his fibre got cut
• the esteemed engineers of the telco are currently sucking their teeth and forecasting a fix date this millennium
• in the meantime he's living off data SIMs and he is offline for most fun purposes
• Blake and I are still here waving the mod hammer in a menacing manner
• I have ssh to the server and can thump lemmy-ui as needed
• all is well citizen! Glory to Awful! Hooray for Big Basilisk!

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marc andreessen reveals his AI prompt. my favorite part is where he tells it to use as many words as possible, as if LLMs are normally too terse. But i also really like the part where he tells it not to hallucinate, and the part where he tells it it's really smart as if that will make it do a better job.

really, the whole thing is an elaborate way to say "make no mistakes, but anti-wokely". Thought Leader in the investment space btw.

There is a “lattice” which connects all consciousnesses

The noosphere, the old cosmists strike again. This sort of stuff and the global consciousness projects (who used random number generators iirc) etc are def part of the training data.

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Not totally sure what to make of that, and none of this actually matters beyond the realm of celebrity gossip, but it is a little weird. I mean obviously on some level his mom is OK with the things that get tweeted on her account, whether it's by her, her baby boy, or an assistant.