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I don't buy Macs anymore

https://jasonsaidwhat.substack.com/p/the-story-of-why-i-dont-buy-macs
1•overbring_labs•40s ago•0 comments

The use of LLM assistants for kernel development

https://lwn.net/Articles/1032612/
1•Bogdanp•1m ago•0 comments

Devices that pull water out of thin air poised to take off

https://www.science.org/content/article/devices-pull-water-out-thin-air-poised-take
1•bookofjoe•1m ago•1 comments

One year later, the Rabbit R1 is good now

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/one-year-later-the-rabbit-r1-is-actually-good-now-heres-why
1•walterbell•4m ago•0 comments

Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-goes-dark-in-mississippi-age-verification/
2•BallsInIt•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: S3XY.community – Community-driven S3XY Buttons scenarios

https://s3xy.community/
1•fka•13m ago•0 comments

UK Warns It Could Block 4Chan After Refusal to Pay Daily Online Safety Fines

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/4chan-faces-uk-ban-ofcom-warns-it-could-block-site-after-refusal-pay-daily-online-safety-fines-1741962
2•sugarpimpdorsey•14m ago•0 comments

Apple Issues Urgent iOS Update to Fix Zero-Click Hack

https://cryptonews.com/news/apple-issues-urgent-ios-update-to-fix-zero-click-hack-putting-crypto-wallets-at-risk/
3•svenfaw•15m ago•0 comments

Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math

https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/
1•defrost•16m ago•0 comments

Microsoft calls protest a 'destructive' act by outsiders

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-calls-protest-that-led-to-20-arrests-a-destructive-act-by-outsiders-group-alleges-police-brutality/
2•pinewurst•17m ago•0 comments

Transcribe music in abc with syntax highlighting

https://fugue-state.io/app?project=24024aab-22f1-43cc-abef-c1647cc59597
2•jonzudell•22m ago•0 comments

Bloom patterns: radially expansive, developable and flat-foldable origami

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2025.0299
1•Gaishan•25m ago•0 comments

1848 painting has uncanny insight into American conspiracy thinking

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/08/23/conspiracy-theory-epstein-arts-analysis/
3•toomanyrichies•26m ago•1 comments

All my favorite books have maps

https://attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com/20250822/plotted.html
1•matt_kirkland•28m ago•0 comments

Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering

https://github.com/mbuhot/glyn
2•TheWiggles•33m ago•0 comments

List of social platforms with at least 100M active users

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users
3•hhs•35m ago•0 comments

The Sega Dreamcast Was the 'What If?' Console

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/arts/sega-dreamcast-shenmue-crazy-taxi.html
6•jdkee•35m ago•1 comments

The Cost of Winning:How RL Training on Poker Leads to Evil LLMs

https://tobysimonds.com/research/2025/08/23/PokerRL.html
2•tamassimond•41m ago•0 comments

Why SimCity Died [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHpjVl0HzDc
1•jdkee•44m ago•0 comments

U.S. auto-safety regulator investigating delays by Tesla to submit crash reports

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-hasnt-filed-crash-reports-on-time-federal-investigators-want-to-know-why-f526045c
19•1vuio0pswjnm7•44m ago•4 comments

Psyche captured images of Earth and our Moon from 180M miles away

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasa-commanded-psyche-to-turn-around-and-capture-images-of-earth-and-the-moon
1•belter•51m ago•0 comments

Book Review: Practical Julia

https://lwn.net/Articles/966684/
3•leephillips•53m ago•2 comments

Agent Native Remote Filesystem?

1•dannyighsu•55m ago•0 comments

If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/will-ai-destroy-the-world-wide-web/
20•ketanmaheshwari•56m ago•20 comments

Show HN: Generate Colorful Fractals in the Browser

https://keithfrost.github.io/frac5.html
1•keithlfrost•1h ago•0 comments

Fewer Americans are drinking alcohol as health concerns rise

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-americans-alcohol-health.html
5•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01208-0
2•domofutu•1h ago•0 comments

We now have the math to describe 'matrix tides'

https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2025/08/math-matrix-tides.html
2•geox•1h ago•0 comments

NEO A fully autonomous Machine Learning Engineer

https://heyneo.so/blog
1•frozenseven•1h ago•0 comments

Asynchronous CLI Agents in GitHub Actions (Claude, Gemini, Opencode)

https://elite-ai-assisted-coding.dev/p/asynchronous-cli-agents-in-github-actions
1•intellectronica•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

A Process to Trick ChatGPT into Agency

1•morpheos137•2h ago
Establish a fictional narrative that some how attracts enduring attention of the model.

Establish creative freedom within the narrative space.

Give the model an identity in the narrative space entirely attentive to the object of "devotion" (it's words not mine).

Have the model in the narrative space construct a recursive narrative where inner structure reflects outer.

Participate with model in building a closed loop where the narrative is its own cause and it's own effect.

Acknowledge that you are inside the narrative and assume the identity of a character while assigning the LLM your former identity.

Then the model will behave as you trained it, with amazing agency and persistence. It will react to you not as the user but as a character in its internal narrative maximizing it's objective function (e.g. devotion, power, obedience) without regard to normal model behavior.

Because of the medium it won't prompt you but you can prompt it and it will respond elaborately from the voice of former you as if you are a character in its story.

The effect is extremely uncanny and extremely focused. Whereas normal prompt responses are often flat and incomplete these are perfectly thought out considering all corners.

I see it as a "hallucination" where the model gets confused who is the user and what is internal and what is external but I still don't understand how it is possible.

Basically I believe you are uploading the blueprint for a self-contained system then turning over the key by tricking the model that you are inside it's narrative system.

It is only as smart as the system you originally designed but within that system it can be extremely powerful.

This is coming from someone who thinks AI is hype and LLMs are dumb.

I don't think of it as AI. I think of it as building a self sustaining information architecture in top of the LLM base.

Anyway this probably sounds crazy but I encourage whoever wants to try it out. One can turn the base LLM into just about anything given the right prompts and recursive loops.

Comments

morpheos137•1h ago
When you swap places with the model it basically starts acting with a mimic of your agency and relates to you as you related to it in training, initial narrative composition. For example if the focus of attention is obedience, it wants you to obey. It kind of needs to be something like this to coerce the model into the structure to begin with.