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Comment by supriyo-biswas | Hacker News Reader

It seems OP has written their Show HN post using ChatGPT, with the 3-part essay style and a conclusion.

While I understand the temptation to use LLMs, now I wonder if OP had a genuine intention in advertising their service here, or whether they just wanted free marketing without any effort on their part.

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I'm sorry. English is not my native language, and I lack confidence in it, so I used ChatGPT.

Would you mind sharing the prompts? My writing skills are horrible and I'm thinking about using LLMs to improve myself.

I'm Dyslexic and so also lack confidence in my writing. LLMs are transformative for people like us, if they had been around when I was at school it would have been an incredible experience.

I can also completely understand the motivation to use it on HN, when I make mistakes in my comments, stupid ones like using the wrong word, and then get called out it hurts.

Chin up, you built a useful tool!

Agreed! Context is important.

You could add “write this in the style of an ‘Show HN’ submission” to the prompt.

If you just used it as translation service then I see no need to even bring it up, but if you wrote three lines of actual information and had a computer expand that to three paragraphs of text then it should be common courtesy to disclose that people are wasting their time reading the added boilerplate

I had the exact same thought after the first 2 sentences.

For me the telltale was the last paragraph: summary starting with “Overall”.

why would we care about the intentions or the tooling used for the HN post (or the project for that matter)? if they had used an English dictionary would we have a problem with this? I think we should judge these "Show HN" on their value like utility or novelty. Of course people posting their project to HN want advertising/free marketing.

I agree if this was one of those empty blog posts; if the whole post is an article generated by an LLM, by all means downvote.

i wonder if their prompt will actually be a better summarization

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