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I find it kind of bleakly funny that people are so all-in on this tech that's so much a black box that you have to literally swear at it to get it work as desired.

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Better then that leaked prompt which they threaten the AI that it needs money for its mother's cancer treatment...

https://x.com/skcd42/status/1894375185836306470?t=ybEgGG-DAJ...

What?! Did they respond to the leak?

> oops this is purely for r&d and isn't used for cascade or anything production

according to their lead design engineer (https://x.com/andyzg3/status/1894437305274044791)

We are halfway to holding elaborate rituals to appease the LLM spirit

Every time I make a 40k/techpriest-worshipping-the-machine-god on one of these posts there’s inevitably downvotes, but you cannot look at some of these prompts and not see some clear similarities.

This is actually much more stressful than working without any AI as I have to decompress from constantly verbally obliterating a robotic intern.

The prayers and vigorous side-smacking are already here; only incenses and sanctified oils remain to be seen.

Praised be the Omnissiah.

Wait until the spirits demand virgin sacrifices.

And then, when we offer them smelly basement dwellers, they will turn away from us with disgust.

As someone who occasionally swears at my computer when it doesn't do what I want, I guess it's nice that the computer can hear me now.

Or do they? Vsauce's opening starts playing

> you have to literally swear at it to get it work as desired.

Reminds me of Alan Ford trying to get a washing machine to “work as desired” - a very early form of prompt engineering:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tAGlUUAmjxk

Whenever I’m deep in a vibe coding sesh and Cursor starts entering a doom loop and loosing flow, I will prompt it with this:

“Go outside on the front porch and hit your weed vape, look at some clouds and trees, then come back inside and try again.”

This works about 90% of the time for me and gets things flowing again. No shit, I’m not joking, this works and I don’t know why.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're lighting some VC money on fire by spinning up an extra few servers behind the scenes when the system receives really poor sentiment.

That or switching you to a SOTA model briefly, instead of the regular fine-tuned GPT-3.5 or something.

Yes, that's what I meant, lol.

Your context is getting too long and it’s causing confusion.

On the other hand, it's amazing that computers are able to do so much with natural language

It doesn't work as desired, swear at it or not. Swearing here is just a sign of frustration.

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