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Prompting People
- apsurd 10mo agoAgree it's not common to give unprompted background context within any given normal conversation. People usually default to the pull style which Id agree is ultimately less efficient. All that said, even though AI prompting is forcing the issue, which is good, the takeaway should be that _intentionality_ is very high leverage. Less so that it's because of some given (prompt) structure.
- vunderba 10mo agoFrom the article: > I was midway through explaining a concept he hadn’t covered when he stopped me. He pointed out that my way of speaking had completely changed and how it was unusually structured and didn’t give him the opportunity to ask follow up questions. IMHO this sounds like a bit of an exaggeration in service of a specific narrative for the blog post, but language convergence has been a topic of conversation ever since the earliest autocomplete features appeared on smartphones. The feedback loop in this situation is (LLM trains on people <-> People then train on LLMs).
- heliumtera 10mo agoYeah, fanfic for sure.
- kuberwastaken 10mo agoI can get the guy to confirm it LOL
- promptulous 10mo ago"prompt engineer". Good God. It's come to this now.
- sph 10mo agoCPO - chief prompt officer principal agentic coordinator assistant (to the) prompt engineer
- fph 10mo agoAnd if there is a prompt engineer, there must be also a prompt scientist, right?
- immibis 10mo agoJust don't do food and movie reviews with AI. We really don't need things to go prompt critic-al.
- ineedasername 10mo agoPrompt geneticist?
- kuberwastaken 10mo agomy head went more like person that engineers prompts = prompt engineer but I do see why it was weird now anywho, more the reason to name the blog minddump
- drewbug01 10mo ago> The more surprising part is the unusual reactions of the other people getting a better picture and context of what I’m explaining without the usual back and forth - which has landed me my fair share of complaints of having to hear mini lectures, but not more than people appreciative of the fuller picture. It’s not surprising to me at all. People don’t tend to appreciate being lectured at - especially in a conversational context. Moreover, people really don’t like being spoken to as if they’re robots (which is something I’ve started to notice happening more and more in my professional life). The fact that the author considers these reactions surprising and “unusual” betrays a misunderstanding of (some of) the purposes of communication. Notably, the more “human” purposes.
- kuberwastaken 10mo ago> The fact that the author considers these reactions surprising and “unusual” betrays a misunderstanding of (some of) the purposes of communication. Notably, the more “human” purposes. Guess that's what early access to the internet and a pandemic during the final school years does to a person, ah well haha
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- phyzome 10mo agoI already tend to talk the way the author describes, which means I'm probably going to get accused of sounding like a prompter. -.- (It's something I've been wanting to change, though.)
- 8eye 10mo agoThat and also how many actors online in the threads are humans? That too is conditioning.
- kuberwastaken 10mo agoAs a large language model, I cannot respond to that statement
- herval 10mo agoThe medium shapes the message. People who use Twitter a lot tend to write in tweet form. I just hope I don't start calling people dumb when they don't get what I'm trying to tell them do with a single prompt/request, like I do with Claude
- dworks 10mo agoBack in the day we used to call it writing a brief, and using that brief for briefing teams and individuals on the project.
- kaffekaka 10mo agoWhen you write for an LLM you write in order to get exactly the outcome you want. It is input to a machine. Talking that way to a person is bound to make them feel weird for sure.