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vidarhtoday at 6:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Giving an LLM samples and tell it to apply the style in the sample works a lot better than just telling it to copy a style it may have seen, or a list of rules.

They do it well enough that it'd take really good output to beat.


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Quarreltoday at 6:53 PM

They really don't.

If your goal is to say, write science fiction, their reversion to classic LLM-isms, is really distracting and is what makes people say from a glance that it was written by an LLM. You basically can't use them at the moment in any real "natural" long-form writing. Everyone will call "slop" pretty quickly on the current frontier models.

Rosmin's DFT paper is worth a read.