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Ban LLMs Using First-Person Pronouns (2023)

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/05/22/ban-llms-using-first-person-pronouns/
13•DamonHD•1mo ago

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halJordan•1mo ago
I'm always disheartened to find the people most loudly exclaiming the need for humanism at the same time demand that every human adopt their bespoke version of disgust, at the risk of being othered by that author.

In any event the author is free to ban whichever token they want, that's an inference time measure.

webdevver•1mo ago
i get the notion that "human things should not pretend to be human", but there is funny circularity (?) here in that the "thing" that is accused of being "human" is not in fact human, and its alleged attempt to mimick human-ness is infact a projection of the human in question - which actually vindicates the non-human thing in using human language, since after all, if the squishy humans will accuse you of pretending to be human anyway (despite clearly not being one), you might aswell do so!
teleforce•1mo ago
>i get the notion that "human things should not pretend to be human"

I cannot understand why LLM most of time using the words like "I understand" in their conversation with their users although we all know they don't think or understand anything [1]. The irony is that the HN crowds also did not like to highlight this issue by asking Dang to change the title of the original post consisting of "AI system don't think" to something else by claiming it's a provocative title although it's the original title [2].

[1] Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don’t think:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-show...

[2] Using secondary school maths to demystify AI (248 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245731

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
2•AlexeyBrin•2m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
1•machielrey•3m ago•0 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
2•tablets•8m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

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2•breve•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

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1•jjkirsch•12m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•12m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
1•billiob•13m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

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Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

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1•mohammede•24m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•26m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now hallucinated as 100% AI SLOP

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•30m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

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1•econlmics•32m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

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3•tosh•38m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

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Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

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A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

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3•goranmoomin•46m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

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Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•49m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

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1•myk-e•51m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

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3•myk-e•54m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•55m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

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The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

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Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•1h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•1h ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
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Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

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2•lembergs•1h ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
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5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments