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596 points yunusabd | 4 comments | 20 Oct 24 07:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.482s | source

I feel like it was inevitable, with the recent buzz around NotebookLM. I'm just surprised that it hasn't been done yet.
1. throwaway0665 ◴[21 Oct 24 02:31 UTC] No.41900193[source]▶
Pretty neat but it seems to make stuff up. It took a meta comment from this post[1] about the website formatting and suggested the community was worried the C++ memory safety proposal would make code hard to read on mobile. It is hard to trust the other summaries after hearing that.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899828

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2. yunusabd ◴[21 Oct 24 06:21 UTC] No.41901177[source]▶
True, that is not a good look.

> This formatting and font mixing is difficult to read on mobile.

I guess for us it's obvious that it's a meta comment, but I can understand the confusion. Still, it could have figured out that "readability on mobile" doesn't really apply to C++, a programming language.

I'll add a section to the prompt reminding it that comments can be meta or even non-factual (gasp), so that it doesn't try to shoehorn meaning into comments like this one.

3. Zopieux ◴[21 Oct 24 06:37 UTC] No.41901267[source]▶
AI making stuff up? Unbelievable.
4. andai ◴[21 Oct 24 09:56 UTC] No.41902439[source]▶
Apparently you can add "don't make stuff up" to the prompt and it helps. I'm not sure the exact phrasing but probably something like only using what's in the text given.