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by StewardMcOy 775 days ago
Interesting. Most of the time the sentences in your prompts don't even contain a predicate.

I tried that with the two examples from before. Mixed results.

Still had one comment telling me to finish it myself in the SNES PPU example, but that's a lot fewer than before. Unfortunately, when I told it to do the work, it gave me a more complete, but not totally complete header without mentioning that it was incomplete. It also took a few tries and I had to regenerate a response that started generating garbage code and then error'd out.

I checked to make sure that ChatGPT had no memory of previous conversations related to the SNES PPU. So I suspect this has more to do with the task given than the prompting style.

https://chat.openai.com/share/8703a48a-af72-4a9f-976e-688a26...

The parser was more interesting. I didn't remove the details of our toy language discussion from ChatGPT's memory, but I also didn't specify much in the way of what I wanted. It created some funky parser code, and I didn't try to compile it to see if it was correct, but it didn't appear to display the lazy behavior I saw before. It also titled the conversation in Spanish, even though I've never chatted in Spanish with it and I'm not fluent.

I suspect I could have gotten more correct output by giving a more detailed description of what I wanted, but I was trying to keep it simple to match your prompting style.

https://chat.openai.com/share/ccc23d98-6d4f-4be5-b9b6-b4464f...