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Isn't the point of having such a simple interface that we should not have to think hard about how we ask the question? I feel like defining a structure for the query such that the machine outputs something useful is something we figured out a long time ago. Or maybe I'm just a luddite that doesn't understand the utility of something like this. Plus: if you know what the answer is supposed to be, why are you asking the computer?

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This is a helper for building an application that interfaces with an LLM. As a developer, you might use this to streamline implementing your clever idea for a product like ChatGPT or Copilot.

Remember, the underlying LLM is just a brilliant text completion engine. Intellisense 4.0 and AskJeeves 2.0 and Waifu 1.0 are all different kinds of applications built on that.

seems like overkill for what is essentially a text template. It's not solving a particularly challenging problem, so I wonder what the incentive to use it is?

If you have a word processor and want an LLM to interact with it, somehow the LLM needs to know that “move text to next page” should actually run “selectedText.moveToNextPage()”

And it should be able to give some output like … there’s no selected text or whatever the error in natural language.

Not sure how you can simply do that with text templates since the whole point of and LLM is that you don’t need to define all the possible ways to say “move text”

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