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I was playing around with GPT a while back and I found that it could come up with some good jokes if I started the joke with a subject. For example, I started
by jongjong 3y ago
I was playing around with GPT a while back and I found that it could come up with some good jokes if I started the joke with a subject.
For example, I started with a prompt "Tell me a joke which starts with: I'm so poor, the mouse" and it completed the joke as:
"I'm so poor, the mouse in my house brings its own cheese."
Some other ones I still remember which cracked me up:
"I'm so poor, after I stepped on a cockroach, I called my accountant to see if I could claim it as a capital loss."
"You're so poor, when you declared bankruptcy, the rats in your house filed a claim for unpaid rent."
"You're so poor, you declared bankruptcy at a lemonade stand."
"You're so poor, when you walk, the dirt beneath you feels rich."
"You're so poor, dust whispers your name when it settles."
"Fickle as a squirrel at a nut convention!"
"Fickle as a dog in a fire hydrant factory!"
"Fickle as a flip-flop in a shoe shop sale!"
- anaganisk 3y ago[flagged]
- Kiro 3y agoWhen searching for them all I can find is this thread.
- swores 3y agoI assume they meant that they're lines which are easy to think of and not very funny, not that they're directly copied. The same way people on HN often (ignore the HN guidelines to) say that a comment here belongs on Reddit, not because it's literally copied from Reddit but because it's a low-effort comment that's technically a joke but barely funny.
- drdeca 3y agoI think the first one at least was rather funny.
- swores 3y agoIt's pretty good as far as throwaway one liners go, but I stand by saying it isn't "very funny", just mildly amusing imo. Still impressive (to me at least) that it came from a LLM.
- Jerrrry 3y ago>"people on HN often (ignore the HN guidelines to) say that a comment here belongs on Reddit," shame is the best moderator
- swores 3y agoYou know what, I wasn't even right - for some reason I mixed up in my memory the following bit of the guidelines as being to not call our individual comments for being low quality, and only on seeing your reply did it click: > "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." (Though even if not specifically against the guidelines, "go back to Reddit" type comments do often fall foul of not being polite/helpful, when they'd do better to explain why another comment isn't suitable for HN than to just dismiss/insult it.)