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Related: About this forumAsimov Unknowingly Pioneered Modern Prompt Engineering
The other day, I needed to configure some server settings for a rarely changed system process (crontab).
I duly googled the topic, read thru some informative "how-to" guides, and skilled all the options, not finding any easy answer.
Then I thot - just ask "Bing" in my Skype app...
And bam. There ya go. Just copy / paste into the config file and my job was done.
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But when I crafted my request, I realized I needed to be very specific, with no ambiguity, etc.
Upon mentioning this to a fellow geek sys-admin, they go...
Well of course, you need to read up on "prompt engineering" - which I did, and gesh... I am soooo behind things !!
Ref: https://learnprompting.org/
"Your Guide to Communicating with Artificial Intelligence"
And this...
https://hackernoon.com/asimov-unknowingly-pioneered-modern-prompt-engineering
"Asimov Unknowingly Pioneered Modern Prompt Engineering"
Sci-Fi writers have been our great visionaries - Author C Clark invented the concept of the "artificial satellite," which make our world run these days ! (and also the "space elevator," which maybe someday we will build)
Prompt Engineering - The Background and History
MutantAndProud
(855 posts)Republicans are a dying breed, it is mathematically impossible for them to persist in a modern society
Pluvious
(4,750 posts)MutantAndProud
(855 posts)Systemic attempts to push the algorithms towards governance that leads to suffering and deprivation at the expense of the few will not be successful
Humanist guidelines must be implemented, even if various Christian denominations object or state that their ideology is equivalent. An agreement has to occur on a multi-cultural language dictionary within the rule set to make sure it does not favor the next life or production and growth of profits at any cost over a healthy life on our planet in a reasonable human timeframe
eppur_se_muova
(37,347 posts)The original idea for the space elevator came from Russian scientist and space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/shoot-to-the-stars-15-facts-about-the-fascinating-space-elevator-concept
More than eight decades later, Clarke and Sheffield published, virtually simultaneous, two novels incorporating the idea of an "orbital tether", or space elevator. Sheffield actually takes the idea a bit further, to include bolos and other space tether ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Web_Between_the_Worlds