I think probably my most common prompt is "Make it shorter. No more than ($x) (words|sentences|...

bigiain • last Sunday at 3:12 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I think probably my most common prompt is "Make it shorter. No more than ($x) (words|sentences|paragraphs)."

pxc • last Sunday at 2:39 PM

I've never been able to get that to work. LLMs can't count; they don't actually know how long their output is.

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