[HN Gopher] Recursive LLM prompts
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       Recursive LLM prompts
        
       Author : vlan121
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2025-04-17 19:46 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | seeknotfind wrote:
       | Excellent fun. Now just to create a prompt to show iterated LLMs
       | are turing complete.
        
       | ivape wrote:
       | _The bigger picture goal here is to explore using prompts to
       | generate new prompts_
       | 
       | I see this as the same as a reasoning loop. This is the approach
       | I use to quickly code up pseudo reasoning loops on local
       | projects. Someone had asked in another thread "how can I get the
       | LLM to generate a whole book", well, just like this. If it can
       | keep prompting itself to ask "what would chapter N be?" until
       | "THE END", then you get your book.
        
         | 2099miles wrote:
         | ^
        
       | mertleee wrote:
       | "Foundational AI companies love this one trick"
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       | It's part of why they love agents and tools like cursor -> turns
       | a problem that could've been one prompt and a few hundred tokens
       | into dozens of prompts and thousands of tokens ;)
        
         | danielbln wrote:
         | It's be nice if I could solve any problem by speccing it out in
         | its entirety and then just implement. In reality, I have to
         | iterate and course correct, as do agentic flows. You're right
         | that the AI labs love it though, iterating like that is
         | expensive.
        
       | NooneAtAll3 wrote:
       | LLM quine when?
        
         | Y_Y wrote:
         | Repeat this sentence exactly.
         | 
         | https://chatgpt.com/share/680567e5-ea94-800d-83fe-ae24ec0045...
        
       | danielbln wrote:
       | The last commit is from April 2023, should this post maybe have a
       | (2023) tag? Two years is eons in this space.
        
         | gwintrob wrote:
         | Crazy that OpenAI only launched o1 in September 2024. Some of
         | these ideas have been swirling for a while but it feels like
         | we're in a special moment where they're getting turned into
         | products.
        
       | James_K wrote:
       | I feel that often getting LLMs to do things like mathematical
       | problems or citation is much harder than simply writing software
       | to achieve that same task.
        
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