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Ask HN: How to make AI better at writing prose?

3•remywang•6h ago
Current models are still notoriously bad at writing prose. It's not just the easily recognizable tics like "load-bearing" and "genuinely". The text is just sloppy, pompous, and full of air.

I've tried different approaches like feeding it examples of my own writing, giving it a style guide, and iterating a few editing sessions, but it appears the way these models write/talk is rather deeply ingrained, and it usually end up easier for me just to write myself. Has anyone found a good approach to make models write better?

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hankbond•3h ago
What is your goal? What are you trying to have it generate that is not more appropriate for you to write yourself?
devilsdata•2h ago
I'm a fiction writer. The way you make AI better at writing prose is the same way you make a fiction writer better at writing prose...

You edit it manually.

That's it. There are no shortcuts to good prose, except perhaps paying a ghost writer.

iExploder•1h ago
Pompous and full of air really sums it up well. As such I usually have to completely ignore and rework generated README / code comments.

Is this just an elaborate scheme to increase in/out token churn or are we hitting some kind of LLM limitations I wonder?

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