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Ask HN: Favourite Prompts for Adding Personality to Assistants

Hacker News - Fri, 11/01/2024 - 5:46am

I'm working on making a conversational AI assistant feel more engaging and personable, and I'd love to know what kind of prompts you use (or have seen used) to add personality, character, or warmth to virtual assistants.

Whether it’s for fun or practical use cases, I’m looking for creative ideas that make an AI more relatable, like specific phrases, unique speaking styles, or interesting backstories.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015365

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Ask HN: Who else is annoyed of "await"?

Hacker News - Fri, 11/01/2024 - 5:35am

Why do we need to put await in front of async calls? I hate it. In other languages like python you don't have to. Why can be await not be the default so I don't have to write it and specify asynchron when I need it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015308

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The long road to lazy preemption

Hacker News - Fri, 11/01/2024 - 5:12am

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/994322/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015222

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A look at the aerc mail client

Hacker News - Fri, 11/01/2024 - 5:11am

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/993498/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015217

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Uniting African Music and Crypto

Hacker News - Fri, 11/01/2024 - 5:04am

Article URL: https://www.groovesfy.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015186

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Ask HN: Why are so many people in tech in denial about AI?

Hacker News - Fri, 11/01/2024 - 5:01am

I have regular conversations with fellow developers and their mindset goes like: today X can't be done so tomorrow AI will also not be able to do X for Y biased reason.

In the meanwhile the most important people in tech including Nvidia CEO, Sam, Hinton, Musk and many others believe that AI will very soon be able to do everything a coder can do today. Why does it matter if it's in 2 years of 5 years? It's much earlier than your retirement date. Nobody is planning for this.

I believe this is a case of "normalcy bias" where crowds refuse to see reality because it's too disturbing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015172

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