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Better Prompting LLMs Through Analogies

cvs268 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:49:36 +0000

Article URL: https://thecodeartist.github.io/better-prompting-llms-using-analogies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425134

Points: 4

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New comment by cvs268 in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

cvs268 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:59:18 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need ;-)

Funny how "attention" in transformers (a.k.a LLMs these days) can help overcome the activation energy barrier due to attention deficit in humans.

New comment by cvs268 in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"

cvs268 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:34:26 +0000

A tech-optimist would perceive this as a death-threat! :,-)

New comment by cvs268 in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

cvs268 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:49:34 +0000

One term for it is "Regulatory Arbitrage".

New comment by cvs268 in "Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world"

cvs268 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:24:43 +0000

...and "No roads". Don't forget no roads! :-)

New comment by cvs268 in "OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model"

cvs268 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:04:29 +0000

...but not widespread enough impact/interest to reach/stay on the HN-frontpage.

Infinity minus one is smaller than infinity?

New comment by cvs268 in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

cvs268 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 11:44:14 +0000

What would Jesus do? :-)

(did you just take the lord's name in vain?)

New comment by cvs268 in "Lion Cove: Intel's P-Core Roars"

cvs268 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:10:24 +0000

Do you use Dropbox instead of rsync?

( Couldn't resist (^.^) )

New comment by cvs268 in "Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company"

cvs268 — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:38:15 +0000

Most folks would say "FCKGW-...".

What's the story behind your key?

New comment by cvs268 in "Google's response to Reptar CPU vulnerability"

cvs268 — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:08:02 +0000

Hmmm...

if the cure for cancer is offerred as a subscription model, that requires an active Google account, well...

New comment by cvs268 in "Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance"

cvs268 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 08:30:33 +0000

Emulate the brain? No. Simulate the brain? Yes.

New comment by cvs268 in "What Are FD&C Dyes and Lakes (and How Do They Differ)?"

cvs268 — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:22:13 +0000

What's a FDA? :-)

New comment by cvs268 in "TSMC faces $70M ransom demand following lockbit cyberattack"

cvs268 — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:00:34 +0000

They will probably contact the real-life folks that were the basis for the character played by Liam Neeson in Taken.

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you." - Liam Neeson, Taken.

New comment by cvs268 in "Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables"

cvs268 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:01:36 +0000

What pants? :-D

New comment by cvs268 in "Capturing the Flag with GPT-4"

cvs268 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:11:42 +0000

>> without running the command yourself,

> the latter is falsified by the fact we can reason about code despite the Halting Problem

i think wokwokwok's point holds true in practice.

Our patience and working-memory is far more limited than what is essential to accurately model all the necessary details of even moderately complex algorithms in our head.

One of the main reasons to limit code-complexity to improve readability/maintainability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

New comment by cvs268 in "FAA K-12 Airport Design Challenge in Minecraft"

cvs268 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 10:27:31 +0000

A solar/wind/nuclear powered Titanic, maybe?...

New comment by cvs268 in "Why does the all 0 public key have a known private key in SR25519 and ED25519?"

cvs268 — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:15:36 +0000

> I was oversimplifying so much that I felt uncomfortable about it because I feel like some aspects of my answer are just borderline wrong

Hmmm... true true. Simplifications are likely to miss the nuances involved.

New comment by cvs268 in "Why does the all 0 public key have a known private key in SR25519 and ED25519?"

cvs268 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 19:27:23 +0000

Thanks for putting in the effort to compose this explanation (assuming U did, and not simply asked GPT). But FYI, I did not find it helpful at all. Even after re-reading it twice.

Bawolff's concise ELI5 comment helped though.

New comment by cvs268 in "Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos"

cvs268 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 05:38:20 +0000

Not really.

it's just that the tolerance towards unsolicited promotional material / ads varies from person to person.

New comment by cvs268 in "Ubisoft+Bungie Scrambling to Evacuate Players Games from Capsizing Google Stadia"

cvs268 — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 18:22:42 +0000

> I've used it to export my cyberpunk 2077 save but I haven't yet tried importing it into the Steam version.

He he. :-)

Reminds me of the folks who ran daily backups, but never tried to restore until they had an actual disaster (and discovered that their backups were corrupt).

Hopefully, these Stadia-exported game saves can be used by other platforms like Steam.