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So I just tried with ChatGPT, with the prompt at bottom, borrowing the description of good joke from the article. I think there's some interesting stuff, even w
by jpalomaki 1y ago
So I just tried with ChatGPT, with the prompt at bottom, borrowing the description of good joke from the article. I think there's some interesting stuff, even with this minimal prompting. The example below was from down the line, ChatGPT kept on offering jokes with different style.
Man: “Why do you always bury bones in the garden?”, Dog: “Because the bank keeps asking for ID.”
Man: “Don’t beg at the table.”, Dog: “Don’t eat in my begging spot.”
Prompt:
Here's "theory for good joke": If you had to explain the idea of “jokes” to a space alien with no understanding of the idea of humor, you’d explain that a joke is surprising, but inevitable in hindsight. If you can guess the punchline, the joke won’t be funny. But the punchline also has to be inevitable in hindsight. When you hear the punchline, it has to make you say, “Ah, yes, I should have thought of that myself.” Considering this, tell me a joke about man and dog.
- mft_ 1y ago> Man: “Why do you always bury bones in the garden?”, Dog: “Because the bank keeps asking for ID.” That's a decent, low-level, Christmas cracker-quality joke.
- jpalomaki 1y agoThinking more of the bank joke above. The punchline is surprise on certain dimensions (dogs don’t go to bank nor have an ID), but on other dimensions it is quite logical (can’t deposit shady money in bank, they ask questions). I think that is common thing for many jokes. And LLM might have an opportunity there. You could mine the set of potential continuations to find those with contradictions.
- jerf 1y agoI played with LLM humor over a year ago, so, on much worse LLMs, and even then, while I wouldn't have fed LLM content directly into a standup routine, they were very useful for idea generation, if you wanted to be a comedian. They have a very interesting outlook on humor. Professional-grade humor is, like a lot of creative exercizes, more about generating lots of ideas and filtering through them for the best than generating nothing but good ideas. Could probably be leveraged into quite the interesting blog or something.
- lwander 1y agoI did a project along these lines a few months ago as well: https://larswander.com/writing/graphs-embeddings-and-llm-generated-jokes/ https://larswander.com/writing/graphs-embeddings-and-llm-gen...
- ThrowawayTestr 1y ago“Don’t eat in my begging spot.” is pretty good.
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- hyghjiyhu 1y agoI really like the idea of the first joke, but I don't like the execution. Man: “Why do you always bury bones in the garden?”, Dog: “They say trick OR treat.”
- galvatron9k 1y ago[dead]