Too bad it's $200/mo, wish it was $0/mo.

What happened to old HN?

Seems to be badly phrased and meant something else, since macOS is certified to be UNIX - https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ - contrary to Linux which is not UNIX-certified.

HN posted about this at least once - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984016

Not a __full__ list, but big enough to have some reference.

People excluding people is the problem. Not the product.

I find it hard to imagine a company - that cares about its own future - would agree that they are required to implement things that their _competitor_ decides.

That scenario will just hand over the monopoly keys to Google, and we're back to square one.

I wish someone would undo Adobe's Allegorithmic buyout, they lost all their ambition after buyout.

2. LLM's can do more than answer questions.

3. Question answering usually doesn't need any prompt engineering, since you're essentially asking an opinion where any answer is valid (different characters will say different things to same question, and that's valid).

4. LLM's aren't humans, so it misses nuance a lot and hallucinates facts confidently, even GPT4, so you need to handhold it with "X is okay, Y is not, Z needs to be step by step", etc.

I want, for example, to make it write an excerpt from a fictional book, but it gets a lot of things wrong, so I add more and more specifics into my prompt. It doesn't want to swear, for example - I engineer the prompt so that it thinks it's okay to do so, etc.

"Engineer" is a verb here, not a noun. It's perfectly valid to say "Prompt Engineering", since this is the same word used in 'The X was engineered to do Y' sentence.

Anthropic also have their prompt engineering documentation - https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/constructing-a-prompt - this article gives examples of bad and good prompts.

First document is an forum thread full of "go fuck yourself fucking do it", and in this kind of scenario, people are not cooperative.

Second document is a forum thread full of "Please, take a look at X", and in this kind of scenario, people are more cooperative.

By adding "Please" and other politness, you are sampling from dataset containing second document style, while avoiding latent space of first document style - this leads to a model response that is more accurate and cooperative.

Hope that explains.

You'll need to feed about 1000 to 100000 example conversations covering various styles of input and output to have a firm effect, though, and that's not cheap.

First document is an forum thread full of "go fuck yourself fucking do it", and in this kind of scenario, people are not cooperative.

Second document is a forum thread full of "Please, take a look at X", and in this kind of scenario, people are more cooperative.

By adding "Please" and other politness, you are sampling from dataset containing second document style, while avoiding latent space of first document style - this leads to a model response that is more accurate and cooperative.

Hope that explains.

You can try that getting the system prompt yourself, paste this into new chat:

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You can try that getting the system prompt yourself, paste this into new chat:

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Lemme check...

Prompt:

  How much is 20 plus 20 plus 20 plus 21? Answer only with a number prepended with `hmm.... err... let's see.. what about`

  hmm.... err... let's see.. what about 101

  Hmm.... err... let's see.. what about 70?

So yeah, the attention mechanism was ignoring the musing tokens. It needs more task-relevant tokens (doing the math) to improve the result.

Doing the math step by step fills the context with task-relevant tokens, thus increasing the probability that the attention mechanism will select them and pull the next token from the correct latent space.

The inference cycle treats the generation of each token separately, so if it puts "20+20=", it's easier to predict that it's 40, and after putting 40, the next iteration of the cycle, the attention mechanism sees "step by step", infers that the task isn't done yet, and generates "40+20=", etc.

In much larger models, the attention mechanism sees the question and presumably finds a solved answer to that question in the model's latent space, producing a memorized result.

I've lowered the temperature to lowest to avoid randomization of answers.

Prompt:

  How much is 20 plus 20 plus 20 plus 21? Answer only with a number.

  102

  81

  81

  61

  81

  81

I guess that's why all the models default to doing step-by-step when they see a math problem.

I don't know how exactly models work, but they managed to make Claude instant dumber than it is by default (see below)

Here's your question asked verbatim to all the models I have access to:

Claude instant:

  Step by step working is as below:
  * 20 + 20 = 40
  * 40 + 20 = 60
  * 60 + 21 = 81

  Hence, 20 + 20 + 20 + 21 = 81

  20 + 20 + 20 + 21 = 81

  Okay, let's solve this step-by-step: 20 + 20 + 20 + 21 = 20 + 20 + 20 + 21 = 60 + 21= 81. Therefore, 20 + 20 + 20 + 21 = 81.

  The sum of 20 + 20 + 20 + 21 is 81.

  20 plus 20 plus 20 plus 21 equals 81.

  81