Colarusso, 4 months ago

Using AI to Distill and Question Texts: Summarize and question the contents of a webpage from within the browser¹

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/summarize-and-question/

"...everyone's been handed a telescope [LLMs], and they keep looking through the wrong end... Instead of writing prompts with 5 words and expecting 500, more folks should be providing 500 and asking for 5."

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¹ The first in my 50-day series on large language models. See https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts

#AI #promptPatterns #LLM #promptEngineering

Colarusso, 4 months ago

A Rose by Any Other Name¹

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/define-words/

What if I you could select a word or phrase, click a button, and get a definition, be it for a word, idiom, or initialism without leaving the page you're on? Well, I'm happy to say today's prompt template does just that.

It also starts us down the path of understanding how a neural net works!

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¹ Day 2 of my series on prompt engineering. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts/

#AI #promptPatterns #LLM #promptEngineering #corpusLinguistics

Colarusso, 4 months ago

Sometimes, I imagine the HAL 9000 answering emails on my behalf simply by saying, "I'm Sorry, Dave can't do that." So, today's title was a no brainier.

I'm Sorry, Dave Can't Do That: [Have AI] Use the text of an email to draft a polite reply declining any request(s)¹

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/decline-requests/

"Sometimes you just need to solve the blank page problem."

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¹ Day 3 of my series on prompt engineering. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts/

#AI #promptPatterns #LLM #promptEngineering #GPT #EmailEtiquette

Colarusso, 4 months ago

Today's post includes some of my thoughts on AI and labor.¹

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/define-words-in-context/

"...AI art doesn't copy human artists the way you think it does & that queasy feeling it gives you isn't about copyright. It's antitrust and labor."

We also revisit Tuesday's prompt, adding context and improving its performance.

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¹ Day 4 of my series on prompt engineering. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts/

#AI #promptPatterns
#LLM #promptEngineering
#GPT

Colarusso, 4 months ago

Weaving back together a thread I broke here: https://mastodon.social/@Colarusso/111822622845238570

Flip a Poem; Roll an "App": Turn the outcome of a coin flip into a poem and package this as an "app"¹ See https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/coinflip-poem/

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¹ Day 5 of my series on prompt engineering.

Colarusso, 4 months ago

Weaving back together a thread I broke above.

I Turned My Scholarly Papers Into Chatbots so People Don't Have To Read Them 🤞¹ See https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/papers2bots/

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¹ Day 6 of my series on prompt engineering.

Colarusso, 4 months ago

Recipe prospecting¹ hack:

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/recipe/

In which I walk through how to get the LIT Prompts browser extension to show me only the recipe on a webpage, not some SEO-motivated short essay.²

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¹ The act of sifting through long-form text in search of a recipe.
² This is part of a larger series. See https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts/

Colarusso, 4 months ago

New post! In which I get an LLM to read an email, create a list of action items, and add them to a to-do list.¹

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/email-to-do/

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¹ Day 8 of my series on prompt engineering. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts/

#AI #promptPatterns #LLM #promptEngineering #GPT

Colarusso, 3 months ago

All week I've been writing on the Internet about using LLMs to summarize and extract data from texts. So, this shouldn't come as a surprise.

"Follow This One Trick to Write Great Headlines"¹

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/headlines/

I figured generating a headline is kind of the apotheosis of this week's prompts. I mean, ideally, it feels like a headline is a distillation of a text's essence.

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¹ Day 9 of my series on prompt engineering. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts/

#AI #LLM #promptEngineering #GPT

Colarusso, 3 months ago

In February's chill, on a Friday morn,
9:08, the day's promise is newly born.¹

Today we learn how to make the LIT Prompts extension into a rhyming clock: A Poem for the Moment.²

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/time-poem/

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¹ If you like this, you'll love @genmon's physical rhyming clock. Buy one here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/genmon/poem-1-the-ai-poetry-clock/
² Day 10 of my series on prompt engineering. https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/50-days-of-lit-prompts/

Colarusso, 3 months ago

What if lawyers could log time in simulators like pilots?

Honestly, it's no longer a "what if" question. I spent the weekend writing up some notes on how to build simple simulations today.

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/simple-training-sims/

Heck, I even put together a simple simulation based on my time as a public defender.

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/ai/client-meeting-sim/

#AI #promptPatterns #LLM #promptEngineering #GPT