What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.
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Can I turn off dark mode?
Are there supposed to be pictures? I passed a human silhouette, but that was it.
The whole thing is automatically generated? Does anything persist? If I could be in the middle of reading it, and the next day it's completely different, that's a huge waste of my time.
A quote from the post you mentioned
> I don't want my eyes to burn when I'm browsing HN at night on my phone
Is it just me who feels completely opposite? I struggle to read dark, text-heavy websites for the exact same reason.
Also, if dark mode ends up happening, please put the checkbox on the account page, the UI is busy enough :)
No. It's not just you.
I have nothing against dark mode in principle, but please don't make it the default. Respect the user's preference.
Or, at the very least, don't use white on black. Soften the contrast so that, if you force me to read it, it's not burned into my vision.
Dead Comment
It's just a matter of time before one of these vulnerable individuals kills a whole bunch of people because the machine told them to.
lrpe commented on Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic sgnt.ai/p/hell-out-of-llm... · Posted by u/petesergeant
Good post. I recently built a choose-your-own-adventure style educational game at work for a hackathon.
Prompting an LLM to generate and run a game like this gave immediate impressive results, 10 mins after starting we had something that looked great. The problem was that the game sucked. It always went 3-4 rounds of input regardless. It constantly gave the game away because it had all the knowledge in the context, and it just didn't have the right flow at all.
What we ended up with at the end of the ~2 days was a whole bunch of Python orchestrating 11 different prompts, no cases where the user could directly interact with the LLM, only one case where we re-used context across multiple queries, and a bunch of (basic) RAG to hide game state from the LLM until the user caused it to be revealed through their actions.
LLMs are best used as small cogs in a bigger machine. Very capable, nearly magic cogs, but orchestrated by a lot of regular engineering work.
I've run numerous interactive text adventures through ChatGPT as well, and while it's great at coming up with scenarios and taking the story in surprising directions, it sucks at maintaining a coherent narrative. The stories are fraught with continuity errors. What time of day it is seems to be decided at random, and it frequently forgets things I did or items picked up previously that are important. It also needs to be constantly reminded of rules that I gave it in the initial prompt. Basically, stuff that the article refers to as "maintaining state."
I've become wary of trusting it with any task that takes more than 5-10 prompts to achieve. The more I need to prompt it, the more frequently it hallucinates.
This is somewhat off-topic, but I am blown away by your use of uncommon characters like "①". They stand out so much that they (for me at least) make referencing parts of the code snippet so much easier to follow.
I see these _nearly never_, so rarely that I forgot they were available to use. I didn't realize HN supports them, or that I could probably use them in review comments on Github. Thank you for the inspiration! (now to figure out how to actually type them...)
I'm more annoyed by them. They're so small on my work monitor that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart. They just look like smudges.
I don't get the need to use novel symbols like this when standard numerals would suffice.