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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 gsf_emergency_6 »

PaulHoule wrote: post #145
malfist wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is so syncophantic, I can't stand LLMs that try to hype you up as if you're some genius, brilliant mind instead of yet another average joe.

Strikes me as super-informal language as opposed to sycophancy, like one of those anime characters that calls everyone Aniki (兄貴) [1] I'd imagine that the OP must really talk a bit like that. I do find it a little tiring that every LLM thinks my ever idea is "incisive" although from time to time I get told I am flat out wrong. On the other hand I find LLMs will follow me into fairly extreme rabbit holes such as discu…

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Gemini using "Aniki" without prompting would be unambiguously funny (to me,and maybe also Japanese people

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

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Post by keeda »

_yb2s wrote: post #460
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…

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

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

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Post by ayewo »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #104
satisfice wrote: post #52

So, HN won’t change its look?

It's been like this for more than 10 years, there's a good chance it won't change in 10 years.

Yea, that's the Lindy Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

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

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Post by eklitzke »

_yb2s wrote: post #460
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…

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…

Pretty much all of the history of HN front pages, posts, and comments are surely in the Gemini training corpus. Therefore it seems totally plausible that Gemini would understand HN inside jokes or sentiment outside of what's literally on the front page given in the prompt, especially given that the prompt specifically stated that this is the front page for HN.

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

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Post by kridsdale1 »

manmal wrote: post #284
Bjartr wrote: post #207

For comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09

Swift has been OSS for 10y now, and still only runs usably on Mac and Linux (the only platforms Apple cares about - coincidence?).

The Arc Browser on windows is Swift with a real windows api layer for SwiftUI.

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

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Post by wavemode »

atomicnumber3 wrote: post #451
seizethecheese wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Today's front page is not a clean 10 year extrapolation from this. That's where AI is wrong. The future is weird and zig zags, it's not so linear as the Gemini generated page.

Honest question - do you think that everyone else thinks this is even REMOTELY what the front page will look like in 10 years? I comment because I really cannot figure out why you left your comment. Do you think the rest of the commenters think this has predicted the future? It might be one thing to point out specific trends you think will not play out, or unexpected trends you think may show up that are currently le…

Your confusion seems to stem from the assumption that, making a statement is an implicit assertion that most people believe the opposite of that statement.

In reality, statements are often made rather for the purpose of emphasis or rhetoric.

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