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lalwanivikason Ask HN: Collection of best GPT-4 prompts?

Thanks! Checking those out.

> What are you looking for?

I want to have folders with different personalities. And I should be able to start a new conversation in that folder, with that personality. Think instead of one global system prompt, you will have multiple system prompts.

lalwanivikason Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

I have been experimenting a lot lately, and I would much rather copy paste high quality output(via providing context) than playing guessing games.

It's not like you have to be coding all the time.

Things will of course change as tools evolve.

lalwanivikason Dalai: Automatically install, run, and play with LLaMA on your computer

I just explained one solution on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LalwaniVikas/status/1635035951654387712

lalwanivikason Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11

I have 65B running alright. But you'll have to lower your expectations if you are used to ChatGPT.

https://twitter.com/LalwaniVikas/status/1634644323890282498

lalwanivikason Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment

Yup! I also ran it! It needs lot of prompt engineering though to get anything coherent out of it. I am waiting for instruction tuning[2] next.

[1] https://twitter.com/LalwaniVikas/status/1634648646535770113

[2] https://openai.com/research/instruction-following

lalwanivikason Temporal Programming, a new name for an old paradigm

Hmmm I got confused by the name. I thought it's related to https://temporal.io/

lalwanivikason Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

*5 years to citizenship, which is not bad but not the best either.

lalwanivikason ‘Date me’ Google Docs and the hyper-optimized quest for love

I thought about doing it, but never really got to it. Similar to what many in the articles have claimed, online dating is really really HARD. So I came to the same idea on my own. Not surprised at all.

lalwanivikason Jq Internals: Backtracking (2017)

Marty Stepp from Stanford had the best videos on this but they took it down from YouTube ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lalwanivikason Redis explained

I haven't read it, but the presentation is really beautiful! Is it possible to make it printer friendly by any chance? Default browser PDF is a mess. Long form content like this is much easier to read printed.

lalwanivikason System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

It's pretty good work man! Keep it up. Yes there are problems which people will point out, but I absolutely love old mac UIs, so we need more stuff like this :-)

lalwanivikason Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

How/where do you track keywords?

lalwanivikason Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?

Do you buy it over the counter?

lalwanivikason Crafting Interpreters: A Review

Exactly the comment I was looking for. Thanks for the OS book recommendation.

PS: you might want to reformat your list.

lalwanivikason Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

LOL no. If you think this way, there's something wrong in which your company is using it. It helps me personally to manage my work better.

lalwanivikason Use Git tactically

I feel attacked.

Jokes aside, what advice would you give to such developers? Asking for a friend.

lalwanivikason Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

That's so obfuscated that one needs an MIT degree to decode it :D

Anyway, I am happy for you my man! You have achieved something that most of us just dream of at this point :-)

lalwanivikason Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

> a wealthy one who thought he would leave his fortune to MIT

A tangential question, so I apologize in advance but how did you build your fortune? I am curious if it was not through entrepreneurship.

lalwanivikason Fish 3.4.0

My company has default shell as zsh so every tool assumes that. How can I switch to fish in such an environment?

lalwanivikason Ask HN: Best books on managing software complexity?

I am sorry but this is tangential to what OP is asking.

lalwanivikason Hello Mac OS X Tiger

Is it possible to get it(old look) back? I tried searching for it but did not find anything promising.

lalwanivikason Ask HN: It seems like everyone is getting rich?

Selection bias combined with social media bs. You don't hear about industries that died or barely survived covid. There's a whole segment of population that was employed by those industries.

lalwanivikason Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

> He is also an ultra-marathon and touring cyclist. Some excellent accomplishments have included the 298 mile Cannonball in 14:01, and a five-week tandem camping tour from Amsterdam to Athens.

Got this from your Wiki entry. Hats off to you dear sir!

lalwanivikason A $100m Hedge Fund for the People – Interview Requests

I am not holding it rn but I am making an account to buy few. I am curious to learn more about you and what you are trying to do.

lalwanivikason Ask HN: How much money do you have?

What are you learning if I may ask? And building?

lalwanivikason Ask HN: What Skills/Skill Upgrades You're Getting in 2021?

How do you plan to do it? Do you know anyone who has done it? I have mainly done Python work till now and I am not sure if people like me can make the switch :/

lalwanivikason Google outage – resolved

What exactly did you do that makes you so confident?

lalwanivikason Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)

This video is extremely accurate. Being an average looking guy is soo depressing.

lalwanivikason Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)

> None of the girls I've dated have even considered online dating.

Is this still true? When was the last time you tried Tinder/Bumble/OKC? There are tons of attractive people there.