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simonw

120,481 karma · joined October 29, 2007

JSK Fellow 2020. Creator of Datasette, co-creator of Django. Co-founder of Lanyrd, YC Winter 2011.

https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net/

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The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection

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Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection

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The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection

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Web LLM runs the vicuna-7B LLM in the browser and it’s impressive

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Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen?

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We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics

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AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects

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I built a ChatGPT plugin to answer questions about data hosted in Datasette

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Don’t trust AI to talk accurately about itself: Bard wasn’t trained on Gmail

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A simple Python implementation of the ReAct pattern for LLMs

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Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser?

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How to read Hacker News threads with most recent comments first

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Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment

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ChatGPT can’t access the internet, even though it looks like it can

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I promise ChatGPT can’t access the internet, even though it looks like it can

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In Defense of Prompt Engineering

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AI chatbot “Sidney” is misbehaving – Nov 23 2022 Microsoft community thread

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Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk

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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

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Making SQLite extensions pip install-able

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Exploring MusicCaps, the training data behind Google’s MusicLM text2music model

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Semantic search answers: Q&A against documentation with GPT3+OpenAI embeddings

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Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground

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Datasette 1.0a2: Upserts and finely grained permissions

simonwillison.net·2 pts·simonw·
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A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do

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Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0

simonwillison.net·226 pts·simonw·
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Increased productivity on personal projects with comprehensive docs and tests

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GitHub Pages: The Missing Manual

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Measuring Traffic During the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

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Ask HN: Best examples of end-user facing documentation

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