Comment by Wowfunhappy
5 days ago
> 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?
It's better that they keep those verbal tics to make low effort AI generated output identifiable. Those that care will put in the effort to clean it up for their purposes.
From a societal perspective, I agree (and admittedly, maybe I shouldn’t be giving them ideas). But from a product perspective, this doesn’t seem optimal.
I get good results doing that, but it's all about being the human who has the taste and making a tasteful result. change the prompt, try again, change the temperature, whatever it takes.