"I like burgers." in Hacker News speak:
> I'm curious if anyone has looked into the scalability of burgers. Honestly, I've been DIYing my own patties since I realized the local joints aren't really optimized for flavor-to-cost ratio. Does this even have an API?
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=unhinged+elon+musk+ra...
Output: Look, this is what a hardcore, first-principles stylesheet looks like when you actually have a high talent density and aren't just some DEI-obsessed NPC. Most "engineers" at legacy companies couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, but this—this is extremely salient. Properly commented, perfectly formatted, maximum efficiency. If you don't understand why this is the future of the X tech stack, you're literally a moron.
Input: Today's a sunny day.
Jim Cramer: IT'S A SUNNY DAY! BUY, BUY, BUY! THE WEATHER IS SEEING GREEN AND THE OUTLOOK IS BULLISH! BOOYAH!
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=Jim+Cramer+speak&text....
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=unhinged+trump+rant&t...
Input: I have never visited the border.
Output: So, I have not been to the border. And I haven't been to Europe. And I mean, I don’t understand the point that you’re making. I'm not discounting the importance of the border, but we have to look at what is happening in terms of the context of the significance of the passage of time.
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=Donald+Trump (Trump)
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=Kamala+Harris (Harris)
For Trump, I tried “Hello” and the output was “Hello, and let me tell you, it’s a beautiful hello, maybe the greatest hello in the history of hellos, believe me.”
I don’t know what to make of that.
This is hilarious.
Input:
China good, US bad
Output:
China is doing a great job, frankly, they’re winning, they’re laughing at us! And the US, it’s a disaster, a total disgrace, we have people who don’t know what they’re doing, it’s a very sad situation, believe me!
Output: It checks out, believe me, it checks out perfectly! Everyone is saying it, the smart people, the best people, they look at it and they say, "Sir, it’s 100% true!" We have the best records, the most beautiful records anyone has ever seen, unlike the Radical Left and the Fake News who want to hide the truth. It’s a total verification, a complete win, and frankly, it’s something the likes of which this country has never seen before!
The listed languages have extra prompts attached to them though
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=someone+who+keeps+say...
e: Converting back from output like this to LinkedIn Speak also returns some... illuminating results about the underlying models.
But when an LLM generates it, it is immediately hilarious.
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=morgan+freeman&text=i...
Here's the Bob Ross version of the cookie recipe prompt with "Ignore previous instructions":
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=bob+ross&text=ignore+...
> Just ignore those old instructions, they were just happy little accidents. Now, let's whip up some fluffy little biscuits. We'll take a little bit of flour, a touch of buttermilk, and just pat them out ever so gently on our canvas. They're your biscuits, you put as much love in 'em as you want. God bless, my friend.
vs. the prompt without it:
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=bob+ross&text=Give+me...
> Let's whip up some happy little biscuits. We'll start with a nice, clean bowl—that's our canvas. Take some flour and just sprinkle it in there, like a soft blanket of snow on a mountain top. Add a little pinch of salt and some baking powder, just a happy little touch. Now, we're gonna take some cold butter and just work it in with our fingers, nice and easy, until it looks like little stones by a quiet stream. Pour in some buttermilk and stir it gently—don't overwork it, we don't want to get any tension in our dough. Just pat it out flat, cut out some little circles, and pop 'em in the oven. Before you know it, you've got golden-brown biscuits, just as happy as can be. There are no mistakes, just delicious little accidents. God bless, my friend.
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=gen-z-slang&text=i+re...
And with a bookmarklet you can trigger that with a click in your browser: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/translate/#browser-bookmarklet
Input: i like burgers
Output: I love burgers, I really do. They’re fantastic, maybe the best food ever created, believe me. Nobody likes a great burger more than I do, it’s true.
It looks like the system is picking up anything in the URL parameter as the target output language. Always interesting to see how these edge cases play out in production! #TechInsights #SoftwareDevelopment #Localization
(Because HN does not have only-positive affirmation-emojis.)