Comment by nemomarx
8 days ago
I feel like part of why comments here are thought provoking is because they're grounded in something? It's not quite coordination, but if someone talks about using software at a startup or small company I do assume they're genuine about that, which tells you more about something being practical in the real world.
And use cases like bringing up an issue on HN to get companies to reach out to you and fix it would be much harder with llms taking up the bandwidth probably.
Yeah, this is the trick, for example in the sort of private hacker news example I was talking about creating, I haven’t created it yet, but I sort of suspect that getting the comments to not sound canned would take a lot of prompt engineering, and I also suspect that even if say an individual comment is good, the style over time would be jarring.
On the internet, maybe you have people using character.io, or other complex prompts to make the comments sound more diverse and personal. Who knows.
I wonder how many different characters you would need on a forum like hacker news to pass a sort of collective Turing test.