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primer42yesterday at 11:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

“A programmer is going to the store and his wife tells him to buy a gallon of milk, and if there are eggs, buy a dozen. So the programmer goes shopping, does as she says, and returns home to show his wife what he bought. But she gets angry and asks, ‘Why’d you buy 13 gallons of milk?’ The programmer replies, ‘There were eggs!’”

You need to write a clearer prompt.


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devsdayesterday at 3:54 PM

"I need to fly to NY next weekend, make the necessary arrangement".

Your AI assistant orders an experimental jetpack from a random startup lab. Would you have honestly guessed that the prompt was "ambiguous" before you knew how the AI was going to act on it ?

jeremyjhyesterday at 12:50 PM

Did GP edit their comment? Or did you read the prompt they used somewhere else?