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by hombre_fatal 1192 days ago
I’d like to see more effort into golfing down prompts in general before being shared. So many prompts are almost self-important in how verbose they are, like a school kid bullshitting an essay.

Watching so called techies use ChatGPT is like watching non tech people use Google.

You can recreate the same output with much fewer tokens most of the time. Especially once you drop the anthropomorphizing fluff.