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[–] 113 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Don't even ask them! Do what... was it Altman? Who said he generates [Generate] a podcast from their schedule and listen to instead. Zero interaction!

Edit: see boonhet's reply below

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  • [–] 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Altman's kid was born last year (surrogacy since he can't really reproduce with his husband). I would like to think they haven't completely fucked up their kid like that yet.

    He only said it was an interesting use case he'd heard of from someone, seriously hope it was marketing fluff and not something he's planning on doing for real or that anyone is doing for real for that matter. But who the fuck knows.

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  • [–] 92 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Make no mistakes.

    DO NOT HALLUCINATE, TIMMY!!

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  • [–] 72 points 6 days ago (22 children)

    I love the make no mistakes prompt.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 days ago (7 children)

    Fun fact: zero impact on mistakes.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago (12 children)

    I am genuinely curious if anyone knows if that has an effect or not. I wouldn’t think so per se, but if the AI interprets it as “double check your initial analysis for errors” it would actually work maybe?

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  • [–] 18 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    For image generation it does. They give negative prompts like "wonky", "creepy", and "ugly", and the image generator evaluates how well the generated image matches those prompts, and produces images opposite those parameters.

    Some poor artist in the training data not only had their work stolen to train the AI, but also had it labeled ugly and wonky.

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    [–] 33 points 6 days ago (15 children)

    It helps to be more specific.

    Instead of “how was school,” try “what did you do in math class today?” Or “what was your favorite thing that happened in school today?”

    Also for the love of God, set up an “observer” account in canvas or whatever your school uses. Have some knowledge of what grades your kids are getting.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    Teenage me is like 7 dimensions ahead of you. Would've just said "I don't know" for both. IMO you should talk yo your kids about things they want to talk with you about. I never liked taking about school but whenever mum and dad asked me about what I was thinkering with on my car I had a lot more to say

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    Well I guess there's just no "one size fits all" and you really need to know your own kid/teenager. The math class and favorite thing from parent comment serve as good examples to try with a younger kid, but over time you learn what your kid's like as a person (as the personality itself changes over time). I myself was hella bored with school and would've answered similarly. Of course my mom knew me well enough not to ask me questions I wouldn't answer anyway, or at least not very often.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Is direct parental oversight something schools allow these days? I know kids aren't always thrilled to present their parents with a report card, but that sounds like a totally different kind of nightmare. There's other ways to engage with your kids' learning struggles than a live dashboard of their assignment marks.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, many schools use some sort of online learning platform. Parents can access their kids grades and the assignments themselves at any time. Very useful for when little Jimmy has not turned in a single thing all year - “all of the assignments are available online, you can print out extra copies at home.”

    I’ve just had too many parents expect me to reach out personally any time a kid doesn’t turn something in or starts failing. I’ve got ~100 kids, and two part time jobs on top of this - the live accountability should be sufficient for that.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Ask them how lunch was. Kids wanna talk about play, not maths.

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    [–] 25 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    I witnessed what seemed to me like an entire office of people speaking like this at a client office (all the way in Dubai where this seems to be the norm now) and it genuinely shook me to my core. Like wondering if the words I spoke to the people there wiggled their neurons the same way they would have five years ago. Every day I inch closer to becoming a mountain hermit

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago

    Every time I have to communicate directly with c-levels or VPs about a project I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. It's like they spend all day on LinkedIn figuring out new ways to overcomplicate language and jerking each other off about it.

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    [–] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    But fr, "how was school" is the shittiest question ever.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Agreed on that front, but what are some better questions to get your kid to talk about their day? Mine's still in kindergarten so I can of course ask things like "what did you do today?" and "did you have fun?" since it's not all boring-ass studying, but a few more years and it'll be school.

    Things I thought up on the spot right now:

    • Did you learn anything new today? (Alternatively: What did you learn today)

    • Do you have any homework for tomorrow? (I'll be able to check this online and I think these days it's an app and you even get push notifications if you don't trust your kid, but I'm of the opinion that talking about things is more important than the information itself)

    • Are you hungry?

    • What did you like/dislike about today?

    But I'm sure there are better ones

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    Teacher here.

    For the littles, when we reflect on our day, I like to ask things like these:

    • What was your favorite part of the day?
    • What was the most interesting thing that you learned today?
    • What was one kind thing that you did for someone today?
    • What was a kind thing someone else did for you today?
    • Did you solve any problems today?
    • How were you honest today?
    • How were you responsible today?
    • What work were you proud of today?

    Obviously not all on the same day.

    Usually in the classroom I'll choose one question for reflection at the end of the day and let the kids share their answers. At home, you could talk about two or three at dinner or at bedtime.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 days ago

    Parent prompt engineering! Still gonna get angsty slop though

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  • [–] 23 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Well, at least they probably won't respond with 'fine'.

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    [–] 18 points 6 days ago* (7 children)

    1.Finish some simple, dumb task

    2.Stare out of the window

    3.Go home

    1. Repeat numerous times

    Then some adult asks "how was school?"

    "Fine, I guess"... What do they think happens at school?

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  • [–] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    What do they think happens at school?

    A lot of social interaction. Personally, I don't give a shit what kind of math or whatever other subject my kids are learning unless they want my help with it. The school part of the question is largely irrelevant. That just happens to be where you were all day. It's a conversation starter akin to "how was your day?"

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago*

    As shared in "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," "prison for children."

    Usually when I was asked, I'd be honest about being bullied by whom, and it sucked socially. Educationally, I reflect on it as "mid;" it fulfilled its programming, I guess?

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    [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Nah, the reason I'd say fine every time was because there was literally nothing I could share that wouldn't be criticized.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    It's school, sod all happened, you think I'm hiding my daily lessons with Miss Frizzle?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 days ago

    More like "prompt parenting."

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Usually I would take this as a funny joke but when a verified "X" user posts it I get confused because I think he may be serious.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Not directly related, but triggered by this, but I once did a job interview where all the questions were of the form "tell me a story of a time where <something happened / skill demonstrated / etc.>. It was actually kind of fun.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    This is a modern interview tactic. It's a lot harder to lie when you have to weave tale after tale. So it can catch people who fabricate their resumes.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    I hate those ones. They're so generic and corporate, it's hard to think of a good example. I don't fucking know when I "struggled with a difficult problem." Ask Me specifics about the job! Ask Me when I "worked in an unfamiliar programming language"

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    [–] 13 points 6 days ago

    Imagine then parents complaining about their children hallucinating

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Replace it with:

    "WHY WAS SCHOOL?"

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    [–] 8 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    How dare you assign your child even more homework.

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