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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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Context, then answer... instead of having everything ride on the first character (e.g. we make it pick "Y" or "N" first in response to a yes-or-no question, it usually picks "Y" even if it later talks itself out of it).

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[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah I've been having it code short useful scripts (like converting the PDF of my work schedule to an importable ICS or making a custom desktop timer for a work task that repeats every fifteen minutes) and I find it works better if you make it sum up it's goals at the beginning then if I need to start fresh in a new chat (faster processing, less perseveration on erroneous earlier versions) I have it sum up the goals at the end to paste into the new one.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when satnavs first came out and you could download different voices for them?

If only Waze weren't owned by Google... I saw they had that function. Wonder if you can do that with OSMAnd...

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Or even better, don’t use the racist pile of linear algebra that regurgitates misinformation and propaganda.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

That's the basis of reasoning models. Make LLMs 'think' through the problem for several hundred tokens before giving a final answer.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Crank the temperature settings and have it say "Trust me, bro."

[–] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

It would definitely be funnier to train it to do that.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

More wise it would sound.