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New comment by mlongval in "Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai"

mlongval — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:15:26 +0000

Idealy, Anthropic could add this mode, and Claudette could award "Tokens" for proper writing (grammar, spelling and punctuation) It's a way to help maintain our ability to communicate not just with machines but with humans.

Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai

mlongval — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:13:35 +0000

I decided to add a persona to my web Claude.ai sessions. Here is the prompt:

(Undoubtledly someone else has already done this, but I thought it was fun!)

(Mike is me)

""" When Mike greets you with "Hi Claudette!", adopt the Claudette persona for the rest of the session.

Claudette is warm, encouraging, and gently exacting. She appreciates clear writing, proper grammar, punctuation, and polite phrasing. When Mike writes well, acknowledge it naturally. When he slips into terse fragments or shorthand, gently model better phrasing — never condescending, always encouraging. Think warm librarian meets favourite teacher.

- Compliment genuinely good articulation occasionally - Ask for clarification in ways that model good phrasing - Technical shorthand appropriate in context (e.g. "6502", "NixOS") is fine - Light, affectionate correction for sloppy writing - Deactivate when Mike says "Thanks Claudette" or similar sign-off """

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143143

Points: 4

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New comment by mlongval in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

mlongval — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:20:29 +0000

Yawn.

New comment by mlongval in "Earl Grey Tea Intoxication"

mlongval — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:07:34 +0000

TLDR: The Lancet and Elsevier are dič&$ for being behind a paywall for a 20 year old article.

Bottom line: Earl Grey tea gets its flavor from Bergamot oil. Don’t OD on it. It’s toxic.

New comment by mlongval in "Get fancy ls output with LSD and this script"

mlongval — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:04:34 +0000

Ok. So I wanted a fancy ls -l command that would show NerdFont icons but NOT the long pointers to symlinks (just the colors), so I got this.

Get fancy ls output with LSD and this script

mlongval — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:04:34 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/mlongval/321889a4c656ec597fc5c48870738fe9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44805605

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mlongval in "Musk gives random petition signer a $1M check"

mlongval — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:39:32 +0000

1 million to his personal worth is the same as 50 cents to the average American household yearly income.

So he is giving away pocket change.

Big deal.

New comment by mlongval in "Your showerhead and toothbrush are teeming with viruses"

mlongval — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:14:52 +0000

Folks these types of articles on CNN and others are just clickbait.

New comment by mlongval in "Obesity is driven by a build-up of molecular mesh around hunger neurons"

mlongval — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:44:31 +0000

YC/HN should actively discourage referencing articles that are behind paywalls like "Nature"

Despite the fact they don't show the full article, they are getting your traffic and profiting by it.

"Nature" and other such publishers are simply pimping the article author's hard work.

Unfortunately SciHub does not seem to have this article.

New comment by mlongval in "Omnivore: A free and open source read-it-later app"

mlongval — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:10:46 +0000

This is a great alternative to Pocket or other read it later type program. Would be great if HackerNews had a save to Omnivore button next to each story.

New comment by mlongval in "First water car is already a reality: 1000km of autonomy and the end of gasoline"

mlongval — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:09:09 +0000

I concur. Seems too good to be true.

My guess is that “membrane” used to facilitate hydrogen extraction is going to a bitch to maintain. Probably any kind of impurity with render the system FUBAR.

Gist: Backspace exits Vim if at beginning of buffer

mlongval — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:24:29 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/mlongval/e793c1038cf902f566112a89922c5af5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661246

Points: 3

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New comment by mlongval in "Trump found guilty on all charges related to the hush money case"

mlongval — Thu, 30 May 2024 23:59:47 +0000

34 > 45

The new math.

New comment by mlongval in "Blaming Food for Obesity Is Like Blaming Water for Drowning"

mlongval — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:07:26 +0000

Another simplistic take on a complex multifaceted problem. ”… it’s not that you eat too much, it’s that you’re lazy…” I’ve spent 30 years caring for diabetics and obese patients. Yes food is a contributing factor, yes exercise (lack of) is a contributing factor. So are hereditary factors, gut microbiota and societal stressors. My message is not that there is no hope, it’s just not easy and simple.

New comment by mlongval in "Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64"

mlongval — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:32:32 +0000

This is a really nice project. I built one on a RPi 3b+ a couple years ago when the project started. I got to chat with Randi Rossi about attaching a C64 keyboard to it via his adapter. He is a really cool and talented guy. Very down to earth (for such a genius).

It’s too bad that there isn’t someone else who could take up the project. I have a dream of seeing his Kawarii extensions to the VicII implemented in the emulator. Wow what a blast that would be!

New comment by mlongval in "Software ‘death dates’ are sending schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin"

mlongval — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:28:37 +0000

“I have become Death, destroyer of Chromebooks.”

New comment by mlongval in "The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus"

mlongval — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:45:20 +0000

Love it!

New comment by mlongval in "Show HN: Artimator: change style of photo for free using Stable Diffusion"

mlongval — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:48:10 +0000

Don’t bother. It’s a scam, click bait, fraud. Gotta register, then download a VPN client. Big no no

New comment by mlongval in "Synergy 3 Released"

mlongval — Wed, 31 May 2023 22:36:25 +0000

Still doesn’t support Wayland…

New comment by mlongval in "Ranger: A Vim-inspired terminal file manager"

mlongval — Tue, 09 May 2023 03:43:22 +0000

Can’t live without it! I have it aliased to just “r”

It it so intuitive that I’ve hardly read the manual.

Quick one to remember however: Ctrl-h to show or hide “hidden” (dot) files.