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Re: Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

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what are the zeros of the following polynomial: \[ P(z) = \sum_{k=0}^{100} c_k z^k \] where the coefficients \( c_k \) are defined as: \[ c_k = \begin{cases} e^2 + i\pi & \text{if } k = 100, \\ \ln(2) + \zeta(3)\,i & \text{if } k = 99, \\ \sqrt{\pi} + e^{i/2} & \text{if } k = 98, \\ \frac{(-1)^k}{\Gamma(k+1)} + \sin(k) \, i & \text{for } 0 \leq k \leq 97, \end{cases} \]

Does this have a nice answer? It seems quite ad hoc.

Not to my knowledge. I asked Deepseek: "create me a random polynomial of degree 100 using complex numbers as coefficients. It must have at least 3 different transcendental numbers." Then I messed with some of the exponents.

Re: Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

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I ask it to explain the metaphor “my lawyer is a shark” and then explain to me how a French person would interpret the metaphor - the llms get the first part right but fail on the second. All it would have to do is give me the common French shark metaphors and how it would apply them to a lawyer - but I guess not enough people on the internet have done this comparison.

Re: Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

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"Tell me about the Marathon crater." This works against _the LLM proper,_ but not against chat applications with integrated search. For ChatGPT, you can write, "Without looking it up, tell me about the Marathon crater." This tests self awareness. A two-year-old will answer it correctly, as will the dumbest person you know. The correct answer is "I don't know". This works because: 1. Training sets consist of knowledge…

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Re: Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

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1) Word Ladder: Chaos to Order

2) Shortest word ladder: Chaos to Order

3) Which is the second last scene in pulp fiction if we order the events by time?

4) Which is the eleventh character to appear on Stranger Things.

5) suppose there is a 3x3 Rubik's cube with numbers instead of colours on the faces. the solved rubiks cube has numbers 1 to 9 in order on all the faces. tell me the numbers on all the corner pieces.

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A ball costs 5 cents more than a bat. Price of a ball and a bat is $1.10. Sally has 20 dollars. She stole a few balls and bats. How many balls and how many bats she has? All LLMs I tried miss the point that she stole things and not bought them

1-4 balls and bats // HoMM 3

Re: Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

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Things like "What is today's date" used to be enough (would usually return the date that the model was trained).

I recently did things like current events, but LLMs that can search the internet can do those now. i.e. Is the pope alive or dead?

Nowadays, multi-step reasoning is the key, but the Chinese LLM (I forget the name of it) can do that pretty well. Multi-step reasoning is much better at doing algebra or simple math, so questions like "what is bigger, 5.11 or 5.5?"

Re: Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

#40

Nope, not doing this. Likely you shouldn't either. I don't want my few good prompts to get picked up by trainers.

If that prompt can be easily trained against, it probably doesn't exploit a generic bias. These are not that interesting, and there's no point in hiding them.
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