[HN Gopher] Co-Adapting Human Interfaces and LMs
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       Co-Adapting Human Interfaces and LMs
        
       Author : anishathalye
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2024-12-22 08:32 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | namanyayg wrote:
       | This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently
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       | To add to that: human behaviour will also significantly change in
       | response to LLMs.
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       | E.g. think how we used a lot of "Google-fu" back in the old days,
       | now something similar is happening with "prompt engineering".
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       | I notice this often with my gf, she sometimes prompts the llm
       | which leads it on to a biased answer, other times her prompt is
       | open ended in a way which leads to ambiguous answers.
        
         | danielbln wrote:
         | Yeah, I always try to not "lead the witness" when querying
         | LLMs.
        
       | keybored wrote:
       | For humans: Oh these fifteen different tools don't give remotely
       | uniform output, but come on it is trivial to transform them just
       | use some sed and awk and cut--wait, you got Perl right? No, you
       | don't need to know Perl, you just need to use these six switches
       | and remember the structure of these one-liners. ... Oh, it choked
       | on some weird whitespace at the beginning of the file that wasn't
       | "regular space"? Right, did you get that file from a Windows user
       | by any chance? ... You tried to parse ls output by multiple
       | columns? No ugh come on, ls output is different stdout is not
       | going to a terminal, what the hell are you doing?
       | 
       | For AI: Your content is written in unsemantic HTML with too many
       | divs! My poor little genius LLM got all confused, aww honey...
       | will you fix your dang content, please? Can't you see that she is
       | hurting?
        
         | mring33621 wrote:
         | Is your HTML page content understandable if I strip all the
         | HTML tags out of it?
         | 
         | If not, it's probably not great with the tags in, either.
        
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