If you aren't telling your computer to ignore goblins, you're going to be left behind.
replyWe’re definitely not escaping the permanent goblin underclass with this one.
replypermanent goblin underclass
replyI wonder how much energy OpenAI spends each day on pink elephant paradoxing goblins. A prompt like that will preoccupy the LLM with goblins on every request.
replyThat is a great point. Machine consumes energy of adding goblins in every response. The machine consumes energy on removing goblins from every response. That is a great attack vector. If (wild imagination ensues) an adversary can do that x100 (goblins, potatoes, dragons, Lightning McQueen, etc.) they can render the machine useless/uneconomical from the standpoint of energy consumption.
replyIn Terminator 7, everyone will carry goblin plush toys to defend themselves against the machines.
replyI mean probably not or they wouldn’t have shipped it, right?
replyPrompt engineering is mostly structured thought. Can you write a lab report? Can you describe the who, what, when, where, and why of a problem and its solution?
replyYou can get it to work with one off commands or specific instructions, but I think that will be seen as hacks, red flags, prompt smells in the long term.
If I could do those things, I wouldn't be using an LLM to write for me, now would I?
replyYou don’t let the LLM write prise for you, you get it to translate natural language into code somewhat coherently.
replyIn this instance I'm assuming most of the "goblin" references were in prose rather than in source code, so the goal of this particular prompt edit was directed toward making the prose better.
replyBut it's much less annoying to just write the code than to try to express it in sufficiently descriptive natural language.
replyConverse for me so ymmv.
replyskill issue
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