Some of it the effect of tells. “It’s not X, it’s Y” is not a bad pattern but it was baked into the instruction following training set just like the other patterns. I catch myself about to use it and use something else because I want to look human. I have, a few times, tried to use AI to write something that I was struggling to find the words and I just didn’t like how it didn’t seem like my voice. If there was just one person doing it would be OK but when it is 100s of blog posts submitted to HN a day it is like wearing a “I’m an NPC” t-shirt.
Someone shared with me this system prompt that at least makes assistant outputs usable
Fair. Otoh, I am even more excited at AI assistants becoming sources of primary info. They do that now, but it's just very expensive and/or (un)expectedly rail-guarded.
/original_non_hallucinations skill?
To PP:
Are you looking forward to other uncles adopting foxwork? If you are you might be in danger of getting NPC'd without your consent haha.
Ashby's law of requisite variety should be cited somewhere..