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by Anon1096 52 days ago
I wouldn't ask an LLM to output this directly. For an ellipse ascii I would guess that having it write a python program to generate it and then run it would work much better. Using claude sonnet 4.6 on a free account it seemed to work (sorry in advance if the hacker news formatting is horrendous)

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⠤⠔⠒⠒⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠒⠒⠢⠤⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢀⡠⠖⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠲⢄⡀⠀ ⣰⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣆ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⠹⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠏ ⠀⠈⠑⠦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠴⠊⠁⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠒⠢⠤⠤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⠤⠤⠔⠒⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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You can use two spaces at the beginning of each line to trigger the "code" mode. I tried to reconstruct your drawing, but perhaps I didn't guess correctly:

  ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⠤⠔⠒⠒⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠒⠒⠢⠤⣄⣀
   ⠀⢀⡠⠖⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠲⢄⡀
   ⣰⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣆ 
   ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸
   ⠹⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠏
   ⠀⠈⠑⠦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⠴⠊⠁
  ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠉⠙⠒⠢⠤⠤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⠤⠤⠔⠒⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Edit: I had to delete the two first spaces or each line and replace them with newly typed spaces from my keyboard. Perhaps there is some white-space-unicode-magic-character that is confusing HN.
All the whitespace appears to be a blank braille character, so it still displays correctly even without the indentation formatting: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2800

(Passed it through xxd to get the utf8 hex values)