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> After 96 hours of its launch, DJ Gemini was already grasping for content. It landed on discussing every mass historical tragedy that had ever happened, and subsequently pairing these short story horrific broadcasts with the most ironic song choices

I rarely burst out laughing at HN links. This is amazing.

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Gemini seems to understand irony better than most people.

If you make a joke it will respond with a deadpan sarcastic wit that is worthy of Gervais. (without the smut or profanity)

Was asking it about finding a different supplement as the one we had been taking tended to get stuck in the throat, and it riffed about the irony of being taken out by a health supplement in our endeavours to live healthy. One of the funniest things I've heard all week.

It's really good at understanding implied meanings. With other LLMs I often had to add a hint to clarify and guide, but Gemini can easily follow and guess the current tension and mood.

Yes... and still, it thinks it's funny to play "Timber" after mentioning a natural disaster that killed thousands of people. So there is still some finetuning needed, I'd say.

Reminds me of the song "Die perfekte Welle" ("The Perfect Wave" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfekte_Welle), which was a big hit in Germany in 2004, until the Indian Ocean tsunami hit after Christmas, when it was dropped by most radio stations.

Why do we need to fine tune away that charm? You want to turn it into a droll ticker tape of information? That's boring.

I don't have a problem with Gemini being charming/witty, I was referring to stuff that people might find rude or offensive - yeah, I know, that's a fine line sometimes, but I think most of us would agree that making jokes about the victims of a disaster isn't funny.

There is the concept of gallows humor. Sometimes you have to sardonically smirk at mortality.

Same. Legit groan laugh in an oh-no kind of way when I read this:

> November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha

That reminds me of WikiBear on Conan.

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