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Re:Show HN: A simple echo server for testing HTTP clients by __s__ on Sunday May 21, 2023 @10:35AM (#36021296)
I'm sorry. English is not my native language, and I lack confidence in it, so I used ChatGPT.
Re:Show HN: A simple echo server for testing HTTP clients by maksimur on Sunday May 21, 2023 @10:43AM (#36021418)
Would you mind sharing the prompts? My writing skills are horrible and I'm thinking about using LLMs to improve myself.
Re:Show HN: A simple echo server for testing HTTP clients by samwillis on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:20AM (#36021861)
I'm Dyslexic and so also lack confidence in my writing. LLMs are transformative for people like us, if they had been around when I was at school it would have been an incredible experience.

I can also completely understand the motivation to use it on HN, when I make mistakes in my comments, stupid ones like using the wrong word, and then get called out it hurts.

Chin up, you built a useful tool!

Re:Show HN: A simple echo server for testing HTTP clients by tailspin2019 on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:24AM (#36021896)
Agreed! Context is important.
Re:Show HN: A simple echo server for testing HTTP clients by layer8 on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:14PM (#36022930)
You could add “write this in the style of an ‘Show HN’ submission” to the prompt.
Re:Show HN: A simple echo server for testing HTTP clients by Aachen on Sunday May 21, 2023 @09:25PM (#36026385)
If you just used it as translation service then I see no need to even bring it up, but if you wrote three lines of actual information and had a computer expand that to three paragraphs of text then it should be common courtesy to disclose that people are wasting their time reading the added boilerplate