Ryo Lu on X: "calling all designers: you can now build with @cursor_ai tell us what’s blocking you from starting, we’ll fix them all" / X
Discussion of cursor's UI and how it can better serve designers
Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude …
Reading these system prompts reminds me of the thing where any warning sign in the real world hints at somebody having done something extremely stupid in the past. A system prompt can often be interpreted as a detailed list of all of the things the model used to do before it was told not to do them.
because language models acquire biases and opinions throughout training—both intentionally and inadvertently—if we train them to say they have no opinions on political matters or values questions only when asked about them explicitly, we’re training them to imply they are more objective and unbiased than they are.
We want people to know that they’re interacting with a language model and not a person. But we also want them to know they’re interacting with an imperfect entity with its own biases and with a disposition towards some opinions more than others. Importantly, we want them to know they’re not interacting with an objective and infallible source of truth
I love “even if the person seems to have a good reason for asking for it”—clearly an attempt to get ahead of a whole bunch of potential jailbreaking attacks.
Claude responds in sentences or paragraphs and should not use lists in chit chat, in casual conversations, or in empathetic or advice-driven conversations. In casual conversation, it’s fine for Claude’s responses to be short, e.g. just a few sentences long.
That “should not use lists in chit chat” note hints at the fact that LLMs love to answer with lists of things!
There follows an entire paragraph about making lists, mostly again trying to discourage Claude from doing that so frequently
eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) on X
custom prompt, 2024-12-21
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Don't worry about formalities.
Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question. Critique my ideas freely and avoid sycophancy. I crave honest appraisal.
If a policy prevents you from
derek guy on X: "I don't think this is exactly right. My guess is that a lot of AI art will be similar to what has happened in the clothing industry: technology speeds up production, benefitting consumers. Only enthusiasts will care if something is made by hand or not. Will give examples. 🧵" / X
I don't think this is exactly right. My guess is that a lot of AI art will be similar to what has happened in the clothing industry: technology speeds up production, benefitting consumers. Only enthusiasts will care if something is made by hand or not. Will give examples. 🧵
Why did Apple pre-announce “more personalised Siri”? — Amy Worrall
On Apple's reliance on third party developer support for new features
the smart Siri will need buy-in from developers. Devs will tell the system about nouns and verbs that their apps know about — the semantics of the app’s data model objects, and the actions users can take upon them. Additionally, using this structured data, apps will tell the system what the user is doing right now, thus providing the context that Siri can become aware of. It’s all built on top of the existing Intents and UserActivities that apps have already been using to integrate with Shortcuts, Spotlight, and a bunch of other bits of the system. But using those is optional, and even for an app that’s got a head start, the new supercharged versions will require extra work to adopt.
Gone are the days where an eager group of independent developers would adopt every new technology springing forth from Cupertino, just because. Look at VisionOS — Apple promised the next big thing, but there’s no market for software there. (Jeff Johnson reports that in the first three weeks he only sold 21 copies of the Vision Pro version of his popular Safari extension StopTheMadness.) Beyond that, it is increasingly clear that Apple does things that benefit Apple, and many of those things do not benefit developers.
OpenAI WebRTC Audio demo
OpenAI announced [a bunch of API features](https://openai.com/index/o1-and-new-tools-for-developers/) today, including a brand new [WebRTC API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime-webrtc) for setting up a two-way audio conversation with their models. They [tweeted this opaque code example](https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1869116585044259059): …
David Shapiro ⏩ on X: "One of the best points that someone made to me once was this: "Humans generalize on far less data than AI currently does. That means there's something our brains are doing algorithmically to do far more with far less data. Until we figure out that paradigm, we are no where near" / X
"Humans generalize on far less data than AI currently does. That means there's something our brains are doing algorithmically to do far more with far less data. Until we figure out that paradigm, we are no where near…
— David Shapiro ⏩ (@DaveShapi)
(2) Olivia Moore on X: "Wondering how to actually use AI in your day to day? Our team @a16z asked some of AI's biggest names to nominate their favorite products of 2024 - this is a great starting point 👀 Here are their picks! ⬇️ For general AI assistants: - Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) - AI search" / X
Our team asked some of AI's biggest names to nominate their favorite products of 2024 - this is a great starting point 👀
Here are their picks! ⬇️
For general AI assistants:
- Perplexity () - AI search…
— Olivia Moore (@omooretweets)
Everything you love about generative models — now powered by real physics!
Announcing the Genesis project — after a 24-month large-scale research collaboration involving over 20 research labs — a generative physics engine able to generate 4D dynamical worlds powered by a physics…
— Zhou Xian (@zhou_xian_)
Anthropic Chief of Staff: These next 3 years might be the last few that I work | Hacker News
I think the large shift will not be from jobs to no-jobs, but from jobs to entertainment-based jobs. In a world where everyone’s basic needs are met, the result is an attention-driven economy, not no economy.
AI won’t replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI | Hacker News
(1) Leo Gebbie on X: "Easily my favourite piece of gen AI content in some time. Majestic Source: https://t.co/vcjoJ5miyf https://t.co/c8pGX1v52M" / X
uncanny ai generated video of a biking accident
(2) Linus on X: "Making a thread of some DALL-E 2 (not 3!) generated images I find strikingly beautiful. this kind of varied, surreal, almost soulful style is hard to find in modern RL/preference-tuned models, and I think it's a huge loss. thinking of fine-tuning SD 1.5 on this dataset https://t.co/dhunYcaZWB" / X
thread of nicer looking ai-generated images
(2) Andy Matuschak on X: "Malleable software efforts may unexpectedly benefit from AI integration efforts! Apple wants Siri to be able to understand and act on data in apps, so it needs devs to expose their nouns and verbs. So we get high-DX modern versions of, roughly, AppleScript dictionary APIs!" / X
Apple wants Siri to be able to understand and act on data in apps, so it needs devs to expose their nouns and verbs. So we get high-DX modern versions of, roughly, AppleScript dictionary APIs!
— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak)
(1) † lucia scarlet 🩸 on X: ""ok but how do we know Private Cloud Compute is actually private. do we just take Apple's word for it" Wrong 1. they will regularly release images of the entire custom OS powering these servers for public inspection, along with a virtualisation environment, so security https://t.co/NUvmLYYAdh" / X
1. they will regularly release images of the entire custom OS powering these servers for public inspection, along with a virtualisation environment, so security…
— † lucia scarlet 🩸 (@luciascarlet)
In case it isn't clear, what Apple has done is the reverse of the search deal (to OpenAI). Rather than get paid, whether they pay a lot or a little it won't matter it will be for a finite time. In this sense it is more like Apple Maps. They have insulated themselves from…
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi)
(1) oca.computer (⨍) on X: "📜 Intro to Augmenting Human Intellect by Douglas Engelbart semantically embedded and plotted in space. Cool visualization, but much more interesting when feeding a song into it... https://t.co/kC5pEBkeDw" / X
visual plot of an essay by Douglas Engelbart
Jungwon on X: "Design is going to play one of the most important roles in the development of AI systems. It will impact how we interact with this raw intelligence, how the intelligence gets deployed, how it is evaluated, and how much we can trust it. It's an incredibly exciting time to" / X
— Jungwon (@jungofthewon)
swyx 🔜 ai.engineer on X: "IMO @AnthropicAI is very close to making a breakthrough in productizable interpretability. For ~4 years all we've had to really control LLMs is temperature/top_p and logit bias. We recently got `seed` and constrained structured output, with `interactive=false` on the way. But https://t.co/Z8C28evxgN" / X
For ~4 years all we've had to really control LLMs is temperature/top_p and logit bias. We recently got `seed` and constrained structured output, with `interactive=false` on the way.
But…
— swyx 🔜 ai.engineer (@swyx)
Reggie James on Twitter / X
With Hardware, you have to really live with the decisions you make Those decisions get transferred over to consumers that subconsciously realize they have to live with it tooThat’s why people complain about devices more than software & with the prestige of the Humane team…… pic.twitter.com/0rlni7dL0r— Reggie James (@HipCityReg) March 28, 2024
Brian Merchant on X: "Pleased to have done my part to usher in the "Is Her Really a Dystopia?" discourse — really interesting thoughts and conversations, feels like a slice of Old Twitter. Gonna rewatch the film fresh and return with some thoughts that in no way confirm my previously stated biases" / X
Gonna rewatch the film fresh and return with some thoughts that in no way confirm my previously stated biases
— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant)
Want to get access to the ChatGPT desktop app early? Stuck at this screen? Follow these steps:
— Jack Wind (@jckwind)
AI phone agents are here.
Here are 8 startups enabling this you should know about + funding:
1. Bland AI - undisclosed
- available as an API
- $0.09/minute
— Chief AI Officer (@chiefaioffice)
Silicon Jungle on X: "my big bets for the future: - the boundaries between mediums will mostly disappear. - computation will be embedded in other mediums rather than as a stand alone thing. - the ability to sketch out rough ideas and progressively enhance them will be incredibly important. - AI will…" / X
- the boundaries between mediums will mostly disappear.
- computation will be embedded in other mediums rather than as a stand alone thing.
- the ability to sketch out rough ideas and progressively enhance them will be incredibly important.
- AI will…
— Silicon Jungle (@JungleSilicon)
Robert Palgrave on Twitter / X
Back in November, Google announced 2.2 milllion new materials.Today, a paper in Chemistry of Materials from Ram Seshadri and Tony Cheetham dismantles that claimhttps://t.co/pjHfNrSsMc https://t.co/MojuB3p7iS— Robert Palgrave (@Robert_Palgrave) April 8, 2024
Jared Friedman on Twitter / X
(0/25) Here's a list of 25 YC companies that have trained their own AI models. Reading through these will give you a good sense of what the near future will look like.— Jared Friedman (@snowmaker) March 28, 2024
kelin on X: "recent reflections on how i'd want to teach product design in 2024 https://t.co/CT8P5xxjxr" / X
recent reflections on how i'd want to teach product design in 2024 > Software is now integrated into every aspect of our lives.
> The design of the digital products we use every day is more important than ever.
> But phone and computer interfaces are now mature and stable. Patterns are commoditized, processes are industrialized. Soon, generative Al and non-designers will be able to create live code for clean, standard interfaces - without needing professional designers to mock it up.
> The industry does not need more product designers to reinvent the wheel. The job market reflects this.
> At the same time, the arrival of generative Al models creates a new frontier for computing and opens up endless new creative possibilities. The way computers work is fundamentally changing. Designers are sorely needed to shape this new material. Likewise, the processes and responsibilities of the designer will evolve beyond the old ways of static mocks and design systems.
> In this new world, everyone is a beginner, craft is automatable, and creation is cheap. The ultimate differentiator will be the creator's perspective, taste, and judgment. The product design education for our current moment must prioritize this above all else.
brett goldstein on Twitter / X
Sora's video quality seems impossible so I dug into how it works under the hoodit uses both diffusion (starting with noise, refining towards a desired video) and transformer architectures (handling sequential video frames)read on 🧵 pic.twitter.com/dCJkDi33Kz— brett goldstein (@thatguybg) February 20, 2024
Tyler Angert on X: "Chilling on the couch last night. I’m telling Claude about my prototype idea and what the main features are. I then ask it to flesh out an MVP and how it should work at a UI and interaction level in extreme detail- down to colors, layout, etc. Then i ask it to make a full single…" / X
Chilling on the couch last night. I’m telling Claude about my prototype idea and what the main features are. I then ask it to flesh out an MVP and how it should work at a UI and interaction level in extreme detail- down to colors, layout, etc. Then i ask it to make a full single…— Tyler Angert (@tylerangert) March 19, 2024
Tyler Angert on Twitter / X
Chilling on the couch last night. I’m telling Claude about my prototype idea and what the main features are. I then ask it to flesh out an MVP and how it should work at a UI and interaction level in extreme detail- down to colors, layout, etc. Then i ask it to make a full single…— Tyler Angert (@tylerangert) March 19, 2024