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

Post by exasperaited » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 6:54 PM UTC

foxglacier wrote: post #236

hnarn wrote: post #179

I continue to be unimpressed by LLMs when it comes to creative work, they're certainly useful sometimes for "reference digging", but maybe I just don't understand enough about how they work and this is actually something that can already be "fixed" or at least optimized for; anyway, one of the headlines is: > Debian 18 "Trixie" released While it correctly derives that a likely version number in ten years would be 18,…

From a quick check, Gemini Pro 3's cutoff date is Jan 2025, before Trixie's release in August 2025, so it could be Gemini actually did notice it should pick an unused Toy Story character. Are you impressed now?

Post by buellerbueller » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 6:55 PM UTC

colinplamondon wrote: post #138

twochillin wrote: post #117

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They're not objectively amazing. Friction is not inherently a bad thing when we have models telling humans that their ideas are flawless (unless asked to point out flaws). Great that it made you smile, but there's quite a few arguments that paint your optimism as dangerously naive.

- A queryable semantic network of all human thought, navigable in pure language, capable of inhabiting any persona constructible from in-distribution concepts, generating high quality output across a breadth of domains. - An ability to curve back into the past and analyze historical events from any perspective, and summon the sources that would be used to back that point of view up. - A simulator for others, providin…

Post by beta_slide » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 6:55 PM UTC

jonathanstrange wrote: post #263

TimTheTinker wrote: post #182

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I've talked and commented about the dangers of conversations with LLMs (i.e. they activate human social wiring and have a powerful effect, even if you know it's not real. Studies show placebo pills have a statistically significant effect even when the study participant knows it's a placebo -- the effect here is similar). Despite knowing and articulating that, I fell into a rabbit hole with Claude about a month ago wh…

Personally, I only find LLMs annoying and unpleasant to converse with. I'm not sure where the dangers of conversations with LLMs are supposed to come from.

Post by monerozcash » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

lucianbr wrote: post #229

jonas21 wrote: post #25

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That's what makes it fun. Apparently, Gemini has a better sense of humor than HN.

But there's no mention of fun or humor in the prompt.

Post by Davidzheng » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #320

I have hard time believing this is AI-generated. Every headline looks like a hand-crafted ironic nod to some long-running HN topic, sci-fi trait, or meme. But it is, of course, more trendy (and more ironic) to proclaim an AI the author.