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by troupo 8 hours ago
> is more of an RNG-impacting (but not always for the better) lucky charm rather than it being universally helpful.

I wrote this last year, it's still true:

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https://dmitriid.com/prompting-llms-is-not-engineering

In reality these are just shamanic rituals with outcomes based on faith, fear, or excitement. Engineering it is not.

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There are some prompts useful for the user like brainstorming [1] but on the whole it's nothing but lucky charms

[1] brainstorming from superpowers: https://github.com/obra/superpowers