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    Comment #44317426

    yes indeed, but it is not enough and was looking to find more stuff to try specifically for voice

  2. story
    Ask HN: How do you defend support AI agents from voice prompt injection?

    We are securing a customer support agent that does the following: - retrieve data around company services from a RAG - is connected to a few tools to escalate to humans and write s…

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    Comment #44317201

    8 people team does not look like "solo" at all

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    Comment #44317168

    yes agree most hype around agents is around stuff that ignore these patterns

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    Comment #44317101

    agree imho this industry should start to communicate in a much more immediate way with social media and reels - already happening

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    Comment #44317096

    these mail should come from an internal account though right? Or is it possible to poison the output from the outside?

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    Comment #44317083

    very cool break down! it looks like it is very hard to defend against those. I am building a customer facing agent and I am looking for lean ways to defend against these attacks wh…

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    Comment #44317027

    not sure how much we can apply this here, but how about specific LLM judges that look for manipulation of I/O?

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    Comment #44317013

    what open source libraries would you recommend to implement these checks? also do guardrails in the system prompts actually work?

  10. story
    Show HN: Find prompts that jailbreak your agent (open source)

    We've built an open-source tool to stress test AI agents by simulating prompt injection attacks. We’ve implemented one powerful attack strategy based on the paper [AdvPrefix: An Ob…

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    Comment #41739568

    Yes. First startup and jumped right at it, skipping the fundamentals. I was not the only one though, the investor gave us a lot of money with a very bad shareholder agreement

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    Comment #41737741

    Cofounder was a uni friend. I was introduced to the investor by a common friend, but needed to do more dd. Agree on the vesting. Rookie mistake. Also on the investor part - surpris…

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    Comment #41737711

    Uni friend. We had aligned interests. But the red flags have always being there. Great question. I'll try to have a trial period on the job. Set a high bar for integrity and execut…

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    Comment #41730747

    Yes but way below market rate. Honestly, that's my mistake, I could have negotiate it better and asked for more. I did not think about the worst case scenarios enough. Good investo…

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    Comment #41729593

    Yes... Cofounders should be people that you have been knowing for years. It is very easy to fuck it up

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    Comment #41729576

    Thanks. Hope other founders will see this as well... Cannot build an house without a good foundation

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    Comment #41717968

    yeah, problem is that is extremely hard to do it alone My approach for the future: - Don't raise unless you really need to scale. Bootstrap as long as you can - Co-founders are ok,…

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    Comment #41717958

    agree, if you get these two right product market fit will follow

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    Comment #41717952

    Glad to hear I am not the only one... It sucks for the time that it takes away from building a company. And it is one of the reasons I'll probably go for a standard job before star…

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    Comment #41705644

    Yes, next time I will think very carefully about which investors to involve. Disclaimer: I am not in a startup / tech hub. I realized that there are many more investors outside my …

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    Comment #41705626

    We did it. I proposed to give him my shares for FREE. He refused, knowing it was not capable of running the business. On one hand, he told me the business value was in the millions…

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    Comment #41705610

    thanks, I know that this happens frequently. But at the same time it feels so sad to shut down a company that was indeed starting to see pmf

  23. comment
    Comment #41698428

    because he knew he either would get the buyout or the settlement money

  24. story
    Brutal Startup Failure

    My first (vc backed) startep failed after three years. We started in 2021, working in crypto. Looking back to the time we got started, I made some serious foundational errors: - Se…