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smokel • today at 3:14 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

The prompts provided are atrocious. It's amazing that the LLMs actually built something useful.

> My first prompt was simple: "in this original code there 6502 assembly code for prince of persia, use the save level files and try to do it in c# console."

Do what in the what now in the console?


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gcanyon • today at 3:19 PM

"now char coming but movement everything wrong ... prince is not in floor"

I'm assuming a language barrier on the part of the author. I wonder if the models would do better being prompted in the author's main language.

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daemonologist • today at 4:24 PM

Yeah, I'm thinking the nigh-unreadable AI-speak we get these days makes a lot more sense if this is what they're training on. Or maybe the author has translated the prompts from another language?

InsideOutSanta • today at 4:33 PM

It's so confusing how the actual article is in English, but the prompts are just gibberish. But LLMs are pretty good at deciphering gibberish; I often put our CEO's absolutely atrocious E-Mails into ChatGPT and tell it to explain wtf he wants from me.

Also, I feel like the LLMs would have done better if they had started from scratch each time, rather than being burdened by the output from the previous attempt.

koala_man • today at 4:02 PM

Unsurprisingly it was buggy without the obligatory "Make no mistakes."