[HN Gopher] Prompting People
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Prompting People
Author : kuberwastaken
Score : 15 points
Date : 2026-01-01 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| apsurd wrote:
| Agree it's not common to give unprompted background context
| within any given normal conversation. People usually default to
| the pull style which Id agree is ultimately less efficient.
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| All that said, even though AI prompting is forcing the issue,
| which is good, the takeaway should be that _intentionality_ is
| very high leverage. Less so that it's because of some given
| (prompt) structure.
| vunderba wrote:
| From the article:
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| _> I was midway through explaining a concept he hadn't covered
| when he stopped me. He pointed out that my way of speaking had
| completely changed and how it was unusually structured and didn't
| give him the opportunity to ask follow up questions._
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| IMHO this sounds like a bit of an exaggeration in service of a
| specific narrative for the blog post, but language convergence
| has been a topic of conversation ever since the earliest
| autocomplete features appeared on smartphones.
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| The feedback loop in this situation is (LLM trains on people <->
| People then train on LLMs).
| heliumtera wrote:
| Yeah, fanfic for sure.
| promptulous wrote:
| "prompt engineer". Good God. It's come to this now.
| sph wrote:
| CPO - chief prompt officer
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| principal agentic coordinator
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| assistant (to the) prompt engineer
| fph wrote:
| And if there is a prompt engineer, there must be also a
| prompt scientist, right?
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