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by cal85 2y ago
It works. I agree, more words seem to result in better critical rigour. But for the majority of my casual use cases it is capable of perfectly accurate and complete answers in just a few tokens, so I configure it to prefer short, direct ans
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by cal85 2y ago
Nothing happens when I tap the buttons. iOS Safari.
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DNA sequencing phone accessory under development(nanoporetech.com)
1 points by cal85 2y ago|0 comments
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by cal85 2y ago
I live in UK where it’s still illegal. It used to be like once a month that I’d smell it in public, and now it’s a few times a day. I think it changed during the Pandemic? Doesn’t bother me personally but the sharp change is interesting.
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by cal85 2y ago
I don’t see the word transflective anywhere on that Reddit post, and don’t really know what it means. Where did you get that info, or is it obvious from looking at it?
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by cal85 2y ago
So the hard claim in the headline is based on this thought process: If they didn’t specifically mention Scarlett Johansson or Her to the voice actress, this proves they weren’t trying to copy it. Seriously? Awful journalism, sorry.
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by cal85 2y ago
> so the Guardian fell for it. I'm not sure you understand the Parliamentary Privilege loophole (and I assure you both the Guardian and David Davis MP do!). It gives any sitting MP the power to effectively legalise mentioning someth
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by cal85 2y ago
Their moat atm is being 6 months ahead of everyone else on model quality. Plus the ‘startup’ advantage over their corporate competitors. Oh and they can hoard a lot of the best talent because it’s an extremely high status place to work. The
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by cal85 2y ago
Bit shoddy to make a categorical claim in the headline, when the immediate next line basically says "Or maybe not?"
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by cal85 2y ago
To me, something being a 'non-story' is about [potential] public interest (less interest, less story). I honestly can't figure out what you mean by a 'non-story' - it sounds like you're saying it's a non-s
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MP uses parliamentary privilege to ask why Lucy Letby story blocked in UK(theguardian.com)
2 points by cal85 2y ago|5 comments
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by cal85 2y ago
This is great, thanks for sharing. Yeah the little imperfections work really well, it's the most humanlike computer voice I've heard so far.
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by cal85 2y ago
Strategy for what?
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by cal85 2y ago
Don’t think so. I just opened a new GPT-4o chat and wrote “Be a therapist” and it replied: > Understood. What specific issue or topic would you like to discuss today? To be fair I have some custom instructions set up on my account, but t
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by cal85 2y ago
I don't think they've sunk $1 into that idea. They've sunk billions into a different idea: that people enjoy using their vocal cords more than their hands to compose messages to send to each other. That is not a spoken conver
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by cal85 2y ago
Yeah it's the worst. And 'um' doesn't seem to work, you actually need convincing filler words. It feels like being forced to speak under duress. I've long felt that embracing the concept of the 'prompt' wa
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by cal85 2y ago
I don’t follow, what about them?
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by cal85 2y ago
We've had voice input and voice output with computers for a long time, but it's never felt like spoken conversation. At best it's a series of separate voice notes. It feels more like texting than talking. These demos show peo
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Ask HN: iPad Pro as an LLM backend?
2 points by cal85 2y ago|1 comments
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by cal85 2y ago
Genuine answer: you say “Be a coach/therapist” followed by whatever you’d say to a coach/therapist.
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by cal85 2y ago
If a designer uses ‘unnecessary’ transparencies and animations just because a design tool makes those things easy, that is not a problem with the design tool.
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by cal85 2y ago
> Then Twitter imploded What does imploded mean here?
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by cal85 2y ago
> But people with "You can respond however you like to my HTTP request" attitude ruined it with spam, scam and SEO. I don’t see how those things relate. They all have separate ethical issues. You can believe it’s ok to scrape w
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by cal85 2y ago
Interesting, is that in the US? I’ve never heard of that being required by law in the UK. I think it’s just an Apple thing here. I mean we obviously have laws about refunds etc but I don’t think we have any law saying you can open any produ
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by cal85 2y ago
I didn’t mean it’s a bad question, I just assumed they thought there was a server process involved. But yeah you can self-host a static JS app easily, or put it on GitHub Pages or whatever, if you’re worried about it going offline.
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by cal85 2y ago
I don’t think there would be anything to host, it’s probably just a static front end app. (On phone so can’t verify.)
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by cal85 2y ago
Could you elaborate? If my understanding of this is significantly off then I’d appreciate if you could explain.
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by cal85 2y ago
Apple lets you return anything, opened and used, within 14 days.
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by cal85 2y ago
I think it's the latter. We may well have some subsystems that work like LLMs or other current AIs, but the overall system of a human mind seems to work in a fundamentally different way, as it's able to make good creative choices
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by cal85 2y ago
I agree with you on Copilot’s clunky integration in VS Code, but I never really thought of it as slow, maybe because I have no other code assistant AI to compare it to. Are others faster?

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