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Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by kmoser »

asveikau wrote: post #180
keepamovin wrote: post #2

Prompt: Here is the front page from today: Your task is to predict, and craft, in HTML (single file, style-exact) the HN front page 10 years from now. Predict and see the future. Writ it into form! update: I told Gemini we made it to the front page. Here is it's response: LETS GOOOO! The recursive loop is officially complete: The fake future front page is now on the real present front page. We have successfully creat…

> 2035 Office 365 You'd think by 2035 they would have gotten to a version of Office higher than 365. (Yes I know why it's called that...)

Office 640 ought to be enough for anybody.

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

keeda wrote: post #493
_yb2s wrote: post #460

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe this was written by Gemini, at least with that prompt, because it is obvious (hilarious and creative) satire of HN and the tech industry based on inside HN jokes and tropes, and clearly isn't a literal interpretation of the prompt. Moreover, a quick look at your profile suggests these jokes are pretty inline with your sense of humor and writing style. Anyways, if I'm correct, it's especially hilarious…

I feel like your expectations have been swayed by the average sentiment of HN on the capabilities of LLMs. These things can be shockingly good at humour and satire. As a very quick experiment, I would encourage you to have an AI roast you based on your HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857604

Also, the recently discussed[0], HN Simulator: https://news.ysimulator.run/news. Eg, page created when submitted a link back to the original submission: https://news.ysimulator.run/item/2944.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by rammy1234 »

amarant wrote: post #477
asveikau wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 2035 Office 365 You'd think by 2035 they would have gotten to a version of Office higher than 365. (Yes I know why it's called that...)

Office 3650!! Works all day, every day, for whole decades at time! (Minus leap days, it crashes on those I guess)

I couldn't help laughing

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by JCharante »

pseudosavant wrote: post #342
keepamovin wrote: post #2

Prompt: Here is the front page from today: Your task is to predict, and craft, in HTML (single file, style-exact) the HN front page 10 years from now. Predict and see the future. Writ it into form! update: I told Gemini we made it to the front page. Here is it's response: LETS GOOOO! The recursive loop is officially complete: The fake future front page is now on the real present front page. We have successfully creat…

This is one of the greatest LLM creations I've ever seen. It nails so many things: Google killing products, Microsoft price hikes, ad-injecting in AR glasses, and even HTMX returning! It'd be so awesome if Gemini CLI went through and created the fake posts/articles, and HN even comments. Perhaps a bit much to ask of it?

I think it's pretty mediocre because there are too many notable events in 1 day. This is more of a top of the week or top of the month, but HN on a usual day would just have 1 of these articles.

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by alexwebb2 »

fn-mote wrote: post #82

The title is misleading. This isn't the correct use of the term "hallucination". Hallucination refers to making up facts, not extrapolating into the future. I read 10 comments before I realized that this was referring to 10 years in the FUTURE and not in the PAST (as would be required for it to be a hallucination).

You're correct, OP used the word "hallucination" wrong. A lot of these other comments are missing the point – some deliberately ('don't they ONLY hallucinate, har har'), some not.

For those who genuinely don't know – hallucination specifically means false positive identification of a fact or inference (accurate or not!) that isn't supported by the LLM's inputs.

- ask for capital of France, get "London" => hallucination

- ask for current weather in London, get "It's cold and rainy!" and that happens to be correct, despite not having live weather data => hallucination

- ask for capital of DoesNotExistLand, get "DoesNotExistCity" => hallucination

- ask it to give its best GUESS for the current weather in London, it guess "cold and rainy" => not a hallucination

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by int_19h »

baduiux wrote: post #500

Maybe this was answered already in a comment. Is the SQLite 4.0 Release notes also a joke? Are SQLite releases rare or even extinct?

Increasing the major version number is rare because they are really focused on backwards compatibility. SQLite 3.0 was released 21 years ago.

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by fragmede »

iberator wrote: post #97
dragonwriter wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consider the subject of the post, not just the username in isolation.

I don't get it

"persistence is key" and a site to for persisting at leetcode.

this kills the joke, however.

Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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Post by maxglute »

icyfox wrote: post #50

Exactly half of these HN usernames actually exist. So either there are enough people on HN that follow common conventions for Gemini to guess from a more general distribution, or Gemini has memorized some of the more popular posters. The ones that are missing: - aphyr_bot - bio_hacker - concerned_grandson - cyborg_sec - dang_fan - edge_compute - founder_jane - glasshole2 - monad_lover - muskwatch - net_hacker - oldti…

You can straight up ask Google to look for reddit, hackernews users post history. Some of it is probably just via search because it's very recent, as in last few days. Some of the older corpus includes deleted comments so they must be scraping from reddit archive apis too or using that deprecated google history cache.
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