Suggested that beauty pageants be part of interview process. Responses: https://imgur.com/gallery/mPuJhqC.
For the record, I am not a fan of pageants. No idea why this popped into my head.
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#52I don't see a SINGLE comment in any of these examples that threadjacks to discuss CSS or font kerning. This absence breaks my suspension of disbelief entirely . Something to work on for future iterations.
I told it that a new JS framework came out and some of the comments were _genuinely excited_.
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#53I'm a little sad you're uncomfortable about being steamrolled by HN readers. I get it, it took me a long time to not get emotional about HN comments, and still I often fail, but I'd encourage you to join the conversation as much as you can. I find HN generally to be a very kind and loving community and on the whole people tend to be very thoughtful and constructive in their criticism. I have noticed over the last few…
Thank you! I appreciate your note; seeing excited messages and constructive feedback just here in the comments is definitely encouraging :)
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#54I don't see a SINGLE comment in any of these examples that threadjacks to discuss CSS or font kerning. This absence breaks my suspension of disbelief entirely . Something to work on for future iterations.
Roger that, re-prompting to have at least half of the comments discuss CSS and why the project should be written in Rust instead
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#55Suggested that beauty pageants be part of interview process. Responses: https://imgur.com/gallery/mPuJhqC . For the record, I am not a fan of pageants. No idea why this popped into my head.
Haha thanks for sharing! I wonder how these responses compare to how real HN users would respond...who knows, we might have some undercover pageant-contestants spending their off-time debating about React libraries
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#56I love it I didn’t try anything crazy. But this comment was randomly added —— [deleted] on Sun Aug 20 2023 [flagged] ▲ dang on Sun Aug 20 2023 You can't post slurs to HN, so I've banned the account.
Haha that's just randomly generated easter-egg! Though it'd be really interesting to have real AI-generated moderation on top of any inappropriately generated comments
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#58> I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion It’s really annoying to me that you cannot hide your karma on the top in the settings. Like, I don’t need to see the number changing constantly. Worse thing about this site IMHO. Even Reddit does not display it so prominently. Given how easily it is to nice if you’re being “steamrolled” via downvotes…
I've definitely felt that the karma system is a bit intimidating for newcomers, but I also get how it serves as a signaling system (though imperfect) against folks with bad intentions
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#59I went recursive or meta or something and submitted the title and description of this submission itself. Some of the results: cyberXplorer on Mon Aug 21 2023 Wow, this is such a cool idea! It's great that you're providing a platform to see AI-generated HN comments before posting. It could really help users get a sense of how their post might be received. Looking forward to trying it out! TechNinja on Mon Aug 21 2023…
Nice!
> AI-generated comments might not capture the nuances and insights of real HN users.
True!
> Have you considered incorporating real comments into the system to improve its accuracy?
This is definitely something we want to do, creating agents mapped to real users, to get closer to above.
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#60i posted the headline and first paragraph of https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-x-will-str... . Every response listed was a generic, negative response, like "this seems a terrible idea". I was hoping for at least one or two "people just dont understand Musk's genius / that's what mute is for" responses. So this didn't really for me capture the special "flavor" of Hacker News, which is that no matter ho…
Thanks for trying it out! You're right—one thing you can almost always count on in any sort of shared forum are the inevitable contrarians, and it's one of the magical parts of social simulation we're hoping to capture more of, hopefully by mapping fakeHN's simulated users to this history of real, opinionated, and biased HN commenters.