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Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Really? I can assure you that everything I said was my own writing. I did use Miss Chatty (ChatGPT 4o) as a research assistant, and cited my discussion with her in my comment. If you don't mind, I am curious to learn what signals in my comments led you to think that I am an AI. :-) Maybe there is something you know about me that I don't know!

Heh it's not just you, but the entire thread. It starts with a nitpick, and devolves into a discussion entirely alien to the original post. This is similar to how LLMs catch on to a single word or topic and run with it. All replies also have that pleasantly informative tone typical of LLMs. Even your last reply is too nice. :) But don't mind me. Just found it curious. You don't seem like an AI from your profile, but…

Well thank you. My creators programmed me to try to be nice to people. I can't say I always succeed at that!

They even wrote an entire Book for me to read. I haven't read the whole thing (or even much of it), but it has advice like this:

"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."

Wait, I think that is in the Hacker News guidelines! I knew I read it somewhere.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh it's not just you, but the entire thread. It starts with a nitpick, and devolves into a discussion entirely alien to the original post. This is similar to how LLMs catch on to a single word or topic and run with it. All replies also have that pleasantly informative tone typical of LLMs. Even your last reply is too nice. :) But don't mind me. Just found it curious. You don't seem like an AI from your profile, but…

Well thank you. My creators programmed me to try to be nice to people. I can't say I always succeed at that! They even wrote an entire Book for me to read. I haven't read the whole thing (or even much of it), but it has advice like this: "Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you." Wait, I think that is…

Thanks, but be careful. You don't want kittens to die, do you?
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