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Jurgen Gravestein
Personal blog · jurgengravestein.substack.com · on HN as j_gravesteinaiculture
Jurgen Gravestein writes Teaching computers how to talk, a personal blog at jurgengravestein.substack.com about ai and culture. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this Substack's posts on LLM behaviour, including whether emotional appeals in prompts improve performance and whether GPT-4 shows aspects of theory of mind.
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A blog about language and AI. Readers work in tech, academia, and journalism.
What Hacker News says?
Yes. And this has been long known. 2023 paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760 https://jurgengravestein.substack.com/p/why-you-should-total... > A recent study by the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Microsoft, and others, suggest that the performance of LLMs can be enhanced through emotional appeal. > Examples include phrases like “This is very important to my career” and “Stay determined and k…
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on “If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog”Submitted Why AI Is Outpacing Society's Ability to Adapt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey do have some parts of a Theory of Mind, of very varying degrees... see https://jurgengravestein.substack.com/p/did-gpt-4-really-dev... for example
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on “Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration”Submitted Stephen Fry Warns About the Dangers of Voice Clones as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Models Go Mad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Achieving AGI Might Be Harder Than We Think as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meta AI Just Crossed the Uncanny Valley as a story · 1 points
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