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Currently getting paid to prompt LLMs and code.

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What does your prompt iteration process look like for production use?

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promptmetheus.com 2y ago

Prompt Engineering IDE to Craft, Test and Collab on Prompts for LLMs

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Why Diet Advice Is Often Misguided [video]

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www.pitviper.com 2y ago

The Optimal Blend of Style and Performance

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adaobi.substack.com 2y ago

My Regrets

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medium.com 2y ago

Breaking Down Problems: It's hard when you're learning to code

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bytexd.com 3y ago

How to Run Stable Diffusion WebUI for Free on Google Colab

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bytexd.com 4y ago

Get Started with Disco Diffusion to Create AI Generated Art

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bytexd.com 4y ago

Using GPT-3 to Generate Text Prompts for “AI” Generated Art

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bytexd.com 4y ago

How to Install and Use Fzf Command-Line Fuzzy Finder

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bytexd.com 4y ago

How to Use Xpra to Run Linux Applications Remotely

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thunderboltlaptop.com 5y ago

Blockchain-Based Lidar Could Let the Entire City “Control” Self-Driving Cars

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bytexd.com 5y ago

How to Use NMAP – A Comprehensive Guide: Basics to Advanced

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jumpstick.app 5y ago

Jumpstick – Recreating the Stumbleupon experience for exploring the internet

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Atomic gardening – using radiation to induce useful mutations in plants

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Akrasia: Lack of will preventing us from doing something we know is good for us

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thunderboltlaptop.com 5y ago

AI System That Verbalizes Fragrances Partners with NoseShop to Describe Perfumes

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www.vscodecandothat.com 5y ago

All the best things about VS Code that nobody ever bothered to tell you

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bytexd.com 5y ago

Install FreeRADIUS and DaloRADIUS on Ubuntu 20.04 and MySQL/MariaDB

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www.justtherecipe.app 5y ago

Website that removes clutter from recipe sites and shows just the instructions

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bytexd.com 5y ago

Install WordPress Automatically on Ubuntu 20.04 Using WordOps

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www.recipesseo.com 5y ago

Common Ingredients in Recipes Analyzer

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www.omnicalculator.com 5y ago

A site with 1554 free and well presented calculators

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Neural Networks Explained from Scratch Using Python

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Video on How to Train Tendons and Ligaments

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www.reddit.com 5y ago

An engineer's guide to managing bipolar/mania

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kr-asia.com 5y ago

Taboola to go public on NYSE at USD 2.6B valuation

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tieatiear.com 5y ago

Necktie tutorial in web-based AR

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nearvear.com 5y ago

A minimalistic site to confess whatever's on your mind and help others

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www.ventscape.life 5y ago

A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Ghostty 1.0 2 years ago

I think it would help if there were more information about it, along with demos, to clearly communicate what it's about. At the moment I'm still confused because I see Ghostty has gotten so much attention, and I'm not clear why it's special.

I am sold thanks to the author's authenticity, but if I had not seen this, I wouldn't know what I'm looking at. So I think it would be very helpful if there were more info on the landing page.

I forgot to add this one to my list, but it's exactly what I've been trying for the past few days, after I was reminded of it after hearing John Carmack, in a podcast, talk about learning things deeply.

This is one of the reasons I'm dissatisfied with myself. My greatest successes have been when I applied full attention to details out of frustration, which have been rare. I genuinely believe that my life would drastically improve if I'd stop rushing from one thing to another.

1. Your first one is also on my list.

2. I have written technical blogs and it is very rewarding when you see your article ranking at the top of Google, and people sharing it because it is genuinely useful.

I may have some advice here.

If you've never had a blog, you'll be surprised how easily you can rank in search engines and get visitors. Technical blogs that haven't been tainted by monetization aren't as many as you'd think. You probably see many of them here on HN, but in Google most websites fight to stay on top for major keywords to make money.

Furthermore, many experts don't write. You'll be amazed when you start seeing impressions in Google Search Console (their dashboard for search activity).

I highly recommend: - Setup the site quick, in an imperfect state - Post a few articles in an imperfect state - Install Google Search Console

Then follow the data in Search Console - you'll see which keywords and pages are getting traction. From there, keep posting what you think would be helpful for people like you.

Mental endurance and discipline to better handle tasks that require sustained focus, especially those I instinctively resist or dismiss, whether because I dislike them or I downplay their importance. Examples are thinking through unfamiliar and difficult problems or reading dense documentation and contracts.

I also want to improve my prioritization skills to better judge which challenging tasks truly deserve my time and mental energy, and which ones don't.

From what I've come to understand:

- Romania's voting system is in 2 rounds, and he won the first. The second is in ~2 days.

- Most people never heard of him up until 2 weeks before the first round, when an aggressive Tiktok campaign started. Polymarket.com didn't include him in their system. Many were taken by surprise.

- Many videos promoting him on Tiktok weren't marked as being propaganda, and thus allowed to go viral.

- He claims 0 campaign spending and that it's thanks to volunteers.

- Many who voted for him aren't into politics, and liked the way he presented himself.

- His content is a mix of populist, nationalist, anti-establishment, and mostly contain patriotic and emotional narratives to connect to viewers.

- Larger cities voted for the pro-western candidate

- He's made some controversial statements, such as the moon landing being fake, covid denying (am not sure to what extent), 5G conspiracy, denying climate change (those being just a few)

Everyone's talking about him. I'm curious how it will turn out and to see how the quote "there's no such thing as bad publicity" fares in this case.

Claude for Desktop 2 years ago

I agree, I'm also firmly convinced it's the best. Until a month ago it has some bugs I disagreed with some design choices, but since 1-2 weeks ago it's the absolute best I've ever used and have easily convinced others to use it.

Now that you've pointed it out I've also realized there was something off about how I thought about attack helicopters when I first read the title.

1. I recognized that many times I answer in a way that's more to entertain me, than actually useful for my discussion partner.

2. It clicked some time after reading "Never split the difference" by Chris Voss. A negotiation book.

At first I understood that I'm listening to understand what my counterpart really wants, that is not saying directly.

An example (I won't remember this correctly and am oversimplifying) was with a Filipino terrorist who was justifying his actions, and the taking of hostages, due to decades of USA injustices to his country. He was asking for a massive amount of money. Turns out he let the hostages go when the negotiator acknowledged what the terrorist was upset about - something like "I understand that you're upset because the USA did X, and they did Y, and Z, etc"

So by that the book made it's point that I should actually listen to what people are saying, because I myself don't understand immediately what I want while I'm talking, so as to tell someone "I want X".

Another example the drove that point home - The author and his son were preparing for something and he asked for a notebook. But the son was giving him a folder, because in his head a notebook is like a folder. And it goes something like:

    Chris Voss: Give me the notebook about the thing.
    Son: Gives the folder.
    Chris Voss (frustrated): Not the folder, the notebook!
    Son: Notebook?
    Chris Voss: 3 ring binder.
Video of him explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcSxpdj84hs

Finally, after about 6 months what really made it click was the part on how to listen on his appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast: https://youtu.be/8EguLJgkc54?t=1307

What drove the point home was his experience starting up at the suicide hotline.

He learned to listen in a way to help the other person untangle their minds.

So basically rubber duck debugging. And that's what I try to do now. I always think like I'm assisting people untangle their thoughts and what they want to say. This helps me also ask questions and not assume anything. And I think I get some dopamine when I ask a good question and they elaborate, because my goal is to learn more about what the other person is talking about, which makes me listen more.

This hits a little too close to home right now. Only a week ago have I felt that I did a few things to actually make an impact.

And this only because it seems that the CEO noticed I can spin up prototypes to validate ideas before passing them to the actual devs.

I've worked with him for a total of 3 years however, and during that time, most of the time I felt like I was tinkering without making a real difference.

The only time that a bigger project was implemented that I had the lead on felt like a fluke and it was after probably 6 months of working on it.

I assumed the target audience knows a bit about prompt-based LLMs and could use some guidance. If that's the case, I think this serves as an excellent and straightforward framework for leveling up their skills.