Talking to AI might be the most important skill of this century

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HN is really getting flooded with AI/GPT posts lately.

Anyway, this[1] is a really good introduction to Prompt Engineering and how one can tailor prompts for their use-case.

Interesting podcast episode that touches on this stuff - "In an age that favors the formulaic and generic to the ambiguous, complex, and unexpected, it's no wonder that computers can sound eerily lifelike. Leslie tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts that we should worry less about the lifelike nature of AI and worry more that human beings are being more robotic and predictable."[2]

[1] - https://www.nocode.ai/introduction-to-prompt-engineering/

[2] - https://www.econtalk.org/ian-leslie-on-being-human-in-the-ag...

I've noticed my kids have always used talk to text when querying google right from the start. They just like by-passed the keyboard and never learned how to type. So funny because I got in trouble in 1991 in 9th grade for typing my homework on a computer and printing it out vs. handwriting practice. Teachers told me that was not okay because I would need handwriting skills at my job.

And in contrast, here in Ontario in the late 1980s I worked in a computer store, and repeatly was told by parents that they got computers for their kids so they could print out homework because their handwritting was so hard to read.

A number of those parents claimed to me that their kids now got better marks because the teachers could now read the work with ease, whereas they often struggled to read the hand written stuff.

Note: Those same teachers still had problems reading the 8/9 pin printouts, but once the move to double striking/24 pin printers they had no problem. This suggests to me, that a lot of the teachers had eye-sight problems.

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