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Same question and great work. I would love to know the prompt details of how the hacker news truth was captured
by pizzathyme 10mo ago
Same question and great work. I would love to know the prompt details of how the hacker news truth was captured
- nottorp 10mo agoYes, this is absolutely brilliant! Teach us the prompt, o great wizards!
- PaulHoule 10mo agoTo answer my question myself I gave Microsoft copilot this prompt: I want you to rewrite this headline "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" into something a little humorous and snarky that reveals the underlying truth that would bring a wry smile to tech-engaged but big tech-skeptical hacker news readers. This has to fit in the 80 character limit for Hacker News so keep it appropriately short. Also I want you to reply with exactly one headline and not anything else so I can use your output as part of a processing pipeline and i get the response Amazon Finally Remembers eBooks Aren’t Supposed to Be Prisoners which I think is great. I started with the first paragraph and got something too long with some explanation. I added the second, and got three replies and more explanation. The three replies were all "good enough" in my mind but added the third paragraph to control the output.
- nottorp 10mo agoI prompted Gemini to tell me how to prompt itself to get similar results on other news sites and it said I should give it a description of the intended audience and what it finds funny/snarky. Which looks like what you did.