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I arrived at a similar template by continually asking "what else would be helpful to know about me?"

I do find it to be more helpful than not, but naturally a lot of the things I ask about are not all that unique to me after all. The personality stuff tends to be most useful.

I would love a "maybe" button for apps like this. Apartment List is the only one I've seen with this option, and it's useful for all the reasons you've described. Glad to know I'm not the only one with this frustration.
Re:GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS? on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:30AM (#40211312)
I feel like that’s more of a ukulele question than a music theory question, but I do wonder if it gets it wrong for the same reason diffusion models struggle with hands.

Music theory is a great topic to test though, since GPT-4 struggles a little with it.

Demonstrating with 3.5 is kind of meaningless. GPT-4 correctly responded, "Using unsafe code has nothing to do with your age. It's a feature of the Rust programming language that is available to all developers, regardless of age."
Re:Experiencing Decreased Performance with ChatGPT-4 on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:55PM (#36634645)
Notice how you never hear anyone saying that GPT-4 is better since the launch. You'd expect to hear something like that as people gain more experience with prompting it.

I've certainly noticed that the quality of responses has gone down, and I have to repeat myself more often as it doesn't always remember all my instructions.

For an example of something it can no longer do, I used to show it off by having it explain something using words that each start with the next letter of the alphabet, then I'd add "now make it rhyme" after it succeeded. If you try that now (even with the 0314 model), it'll fail at the task.

I've been looking for a invite for months — Twitter's new leadership doesn't align with my values and I feel uneasy participating there. My email is in my profile if anyone can spare an invite.
Re:Seven Rules for Internet CEOs to Avoid Enshittification on Saturday June 24, 2023 @03:34PM (#36461965)
You could call it something like the hostility spiral or value extraction spiral, but those terms don't really capture the experience of being a user on these platforms. Save them for polite company, I guess.