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I love when people express frustration with this shitty stochastic system and others respond with things like "no no, you need to whisper the prompt into its ear and do so lovingly or it won't give you the output it wants"



People skills are transferrable to prompt engineering


For example, my coworkers have also been instructed to never talk to me except via code comments.

Come to think of that, HR keeps trying to contact me about something I assume is related, but if they want me to read whatever they're trying to say, it should be in a comment on a pull request.


I've heard stories about people putting this garbage in their systems with prompts that say "pretty please format your answer like valid json".


You expect perfection? I just work through the challenges to be productive. I apologize if this frustrated you.




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