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by bitterblotter 588 days ago
This definitely has a GPT smell, at no fault of the creator. Reminds me of a PR i reviewed about a simple security patch, where the description said "The following changes have been implemented to strengthen our role-based access policies and system security" - Like yeah, it's security patch. A small tweak to his prompt would probably do the trick
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No AI-based tools were used to make the lore. One of our developers (not me) is more of an intense reader and retro gamer; he was the one chosen to write it.
I hate AI I hate AI I hate AI I hate AI
But we love Bulwer-Lytton!
I love Siena!
I wrote that down as an inspiration of Paradise Lost by Milton. The original idea was to appeal to the phonology of English and structure it as a sonnet, but that got rushed
That is purple prose, however. I cannot deny it
i have "no purple prose" in my custom instructions