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This was an interesting quote from the blog post: "There is one silly technique I discovered to allow a LLM to improve my writing without having it do my writin

This was an interesting quote from the blog post: "There is one silly technique I discovered to allow a LLM to improve my writing without having it do my writing: feed it the text of my mostly-complete blog post, and ask the LLM to pretend to be a cynical Hacker News commenter and write five distinct comments based on the blog post."

meowzero 1y ago
I do something similar. But I make sure the LLM doesn't know I wrote the post. That way the LLM is not sycophantic.
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vunderba 1y ago
I do a good deal of my blog posts while walking my husky and just dictating using speech-to-text on my phone. The problem is that its an unformed blob of clay and really needs to be shaped on the wheel. I then feed this into an LLM with the following prompt: You are a professional editor. You will be provided paragraphs of text that may contain spelling errors, grammatical issues, continuity errors, structural problems, word repetition, etc. You will correct any of these issues while still preserving the original writing style. Do not sanitize the user. If they use profanities in their text, they are used for emphasis and you should not omit them. Do NOT try to introduce your own style to their text. Preserve their writing style to the absolute best of your ability. You are absolutely forbidden from adding new sentences. It's basically Grammarly on steroids and works very well.
kixiQu 1y ago
What roleplayed feedback providers have people had best and worst luck with? I can imagine asking for the personality could help the LLM come up with different kinds of criticisms...
jdnier 1y ago
Make sure the check out the LLM chat log he shared for the current article! The tone is cynical HN commenter indeed. https://github.com/minimaxir/llm-use/blob/main/criticism_hn.md https://github.com/minimaxir/llm-use/blob/main/criticism_hn....

meowzero 1y ago

I do something similar. But I make sure the LLM doesn't know I wrote the post. That way the LLM is not sycophantic.

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vunderba 1y ago

I do a good deal of my blog posts while walking my husky and just dictating using speech-to-text on my phone. The problem is that its an unformed blob of clay and really needs to be shaped on the wheel. I then feed this into an LLM with the following prompt: You are a professional editor. You will be provided paragraphs of text that may contain spelling errors, grammatical issues, continuity errors, structural problems, word repetition, etc. You will correct any of these issues while still preserving the original writing style. Do not sanitize the user. If they use profanities in their text, they are used for emphasis and you should not omit them. Do NOT try to introduce your own style to their text. Preserve their writing style to the absolute best of your ability. You are absolutely forbidden from adding new sentences. It's basically Grammarly on steroids and works very well.

kixiQu 1y ago

What roleplayed feedback providers have people had best and worst luck with? I can imagine asking for the personality could help the LLM come up with different kinds of criticisms...

jdnier 1y ago

Make sure the check out the LLM chat log he shared for the current article! The tone is cynical HN commenter indeed. https://github.com/minimaxir/llm-use/blob/main/criticism_hn.md https://github.com/minimaxir/llm-use/blob/main/criticism_hn....