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Show HN: The Million Dollar Prompt

https://milliondollarprompt.org/

Hey HN!I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about a future in which chunks of system prompts are auctioned off for ad space.It got me thinking about the milliondollarhomepage.com.This is the milliondollarprompt.org.* What it is * An experiment to see how a crowdsourced system prompt changes over 64 generations.Free to contribute, with a limit of 50 tok/person to get some spread...

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Thanks for the feedback and sorry about the poor UI experience there! That should be fixed now and we'll keep an eye out for more cases like that.

Definitely a balance to be struck with going heavy on styles, whilst not breaking native element features and violating users' expectations!

Adding to what Rory said:

We don't know for sure. This is built on the intuition that websites are still a one-size-fits-all approach that makes no sense in an age where we have intelligence at our finger tips, able to process and reformulate information that speaks directly to people.

You could see this idea as being on the opposite side of the same spectrum as agentic browsing (which hasn't really taken off yet).

And thanks for the feedback! There are limitations in the quality of the personalizations in onboarding experience due to latency constraints. These get lifted the moment you create an account, and can start doing some more in-depth context gathering of your website and the types of visitors you're likely to get.

Damn, that’s unfortunate. We found the logs and looks like apollo returned empty for your domain. I just pushed an update that uses the same enrichment workflow as the rest of the app and looks like it correctly IDed your co. we're using gemini 2.5 flash-lite under the hood, and if it's not grounded it can come up with some whacky results! we'll shortly be shelving it for flash-3-lite as soon as we can
We use apollo and gemini 2.5 flash lite with web search in a quick pass to ground and enrich data on the visitor. Right now, the queries are generic, as opposed to constructing more "tailored" queries based on what the host might be pitching to that visitor.

We're definitely going to be looking into finding more relevant signals on a case-by-case basis, and this kind of idea fits really neatly into that paradigm!

Show HN: Paul Graham's Essays – Translated

https://paulgraham-translated.vercel.app/

languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), German, Japanese, Hindi, and Chinese (Simplified)models/methods: Google Neural Machine Translation, gpt-4o-mini, gemini-1.5-flash, claude-3-haikuI was reading pg’s “The Need To Read” and noticed there are links to translations in the footnotes. I thought that browser translation tools would have solved that problem but it turns out Google...

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