logoalt Hacker News

jaggederestyesterday at 7:42 PM3 repliesview on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

> The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn’t move.

> The symptom vanishes. You ship.

> The tool didn’t determine the outcome. The posture did.

Here's a free prompt if you can't come up with one that avoids this awfulness yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100213


Replies

stavrosyesterday at 10:18 PM

Or use software that only lets the AI critique/give you feedback, but not write for you.

whattheheckhecktoday at 2:44 AM

Are those sentences untrue?

show 1 reply
Wowfunhappyyesterday at 9:53 PM

> Even as someone who uses a lot of AI, if you can't be bothered to at least give it a prompt like "Go through the documentation and comments in detail and remove any obvious AI shibboleths like emdashes, it's not x it's y, rule-of-three, 'delve', excessive grandiosity and flourishes, boldness, bullet points, etc", you should receive a brisk kick in the rear.

...is it that easy? I mean, wouldn't the AI providers just include this in their system prompts and/or harness?

show 1 reply