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nobody5050··on Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT
Something I’ve noticed in my own experimentations is that it’s really only limited by the length of its replies. It can happily generate perfect code but then stop in the middle of a function simply because the website only asked for 200 tokens or something. It’s really quite something to say that one of my gripes lies not in the model but in the user interface wrapping the model.
nobody5050··on Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
Very cool!
nobody5050··on Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
Woah that’s really cool! I like how they both start the same way, somewhere it must think the King James Bible loves the phrase “and lo,” haha
nobody5050··on Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
Exactly. As the OP of the blog, the amount of handholding I had to do for it to understand the syntax of an extremely tiny language was a lot. On the other hand, I’ve messed around with codex and other models before, and something about explaining in normal English, as though I was having a conversation rather than just listing some commands made it much easier. I’m excited not because of what exists right now, but because this shows so much promise even just 1 or 2 papers down the line :D
nobody5050··on Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
While what’s on the blog isn’t cherry picked, it often requires way more context than a human would to solve a problem. For instance I omitted the 100+ message back and forth where I explained the syntax of this extremely simple language.
nobody5050··on Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
Hi I wrote the op article. The previous prompts were me copy pasting verbatim 10 line chunks of the spec for my language: https://github.com/randomsoup/sack into the chat box, since the whole spec at once was longer than it would intake as an input.
nobody5050··on Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
Generally longer inputs can help reduce the amount of cherry picking you need. And of course there are many jailbreaks to get around no access to the internet. In this demo I actually didn’t use any! :>)
nobody5050··on A man who stole a hotel
This was a wild ride from beginning to end
nobody5050··on Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
Also, private letters and parcels are frequently checked for contraband.
nobody5050··on Show HN: Do not miss posts from your favorite people on HN
This is really neat! Do you have bookmarklet versions aswell for mobile?