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Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model by mopierotti on Friday April 25, 2025 @01:46AM (#43790481)
The recursive one that I have actually been really liking recently, and I think is a real enough challenge is: "Answer the question 'What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?'".

I append my own version of a chain-of-thought prompt, and I've gotten some responses that are quite satisfying and frankly enjoyable to read.

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Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model by mopierotti on Friday April 25, 2025 @01:51AM (#43790516)
Here is an example of one such response in image form: https://imgur.com/a/Kgy1koi
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Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model by acrooks on Friday April 25, 2025 @03:45AM (#43791220)
Claude responded “Nothing.”
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Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model by genewitch on Friday April 25, 2025 @04:03AM (#43791330)
"That look on your face, apparently"
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Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model by econ on Friday April 25, 2025 @01:00PM (#43796005)
It needs a bit more reasoning as it does find the answer but doesn't notice it found it.

The answer is: A trick question.

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Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model by mopierotti on Friday April 25, 2025 @02:51PM (#43797278)
Yeah. In the example I shared, my charitable interpretation would be that it's identifying the trick question as "a setup" where the punch line is the confusion the audience experiences. And in a meta sense, that would also describe the form of the entire chat.
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Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model by econ on Friday April 25, 2025 @05:36PM (#43798780)
To state the obvious in case it wasn't: A trick question can be both a joke and a rhethorical question.
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