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abc20230215··on Cashless society in Switzerland? People to vote on keeping cash forever
I am guessing it will be a two-class society: one being able to cut off other's access to money when needed.
abc20230215··on Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot
Beware of what? Let monsters fight. I will side with the one that did not say "don't be evil" back when it was highly convenient.
abc20230215··on Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot
Bing is like iPhone 1.0 at the first press demo. Google is Blackberry.
abc20230215··on Does your office have a library?
It would be good enough to create a pair-programming-free and no-tap-on-shoulder and no-approach-if-in-headphones environment...
abc20230215··on Transformer models: an introduction and catalog
Does not even list Lundahl transformers...
abc20230215··on Ask HN: What's more valuable: expert or broad knowledge in different areas?
Valve talked about that and also self-organising teams, and then they laid off a bunch of people.
abc20230215··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
I already feel upset about my future interactions with any online support... But as an average "dark matter" enterprise dev, not sure how useful will it be.
abc20230215··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
Midjourney does not have contextual memory, but it does have a feature to always add a given suffix to any prompt. I guess this is a more powerful variant of the same sort of concept. I wonder who will "win" - specialised models or a single configurable one...
abc20230215··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
Does anyone know what is the difference between Bing/Sydney and ChatGPT3 in terms of "generative power"?
abc20230215··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
That sounds useful actually. So I could e.g. set up a Harry Potter chat server and make the bot respond only as Dumbledore or only use concepts of that setting? Or a chat server that responds to algorithmic tasks only with Python 3 code using exclusively numpy package?
abc20230215··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
Ah, sounds super-niche.
abc20230215··on Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library
I am getting old: I read the description two times and checked examples yet still don't understand the utility. I do understand Midjourney prompt engineering though.