Tag: system prompt

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: debug-gym

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/31/debug-gym/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: debug-gym Feedly Summary: debug-gym New paper and code from Microsoft Research that experiments with giving LLMs access to the Python debugger. They found that the best models could indeed improve their results by running pdb as a tool. They saw the best results overall from Claude 3.7…

  • Hacker News: Prompting Large Language Models in Bash Scripts

    Source URL: https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/prompting_large_language_models_in_bash_scripts Source: Hacker News Title: Prompting Large Language Models in Bash Scripts Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the use of large language models (LLMs) in bash scripts, specifically highlighting a tool called “ofc” that facilitates this integration. It explores innovative uses for LLMs in generating datasets…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Structured data extraction from unstructured content using LLM schemas

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/llm-schemas/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Structured data extraction from unstructured content using LLM schemas Feedly Summary: LLM 0.23 is out today, and the signature feature is support for schemas – a new way of providing structured output from a model that matches a specification provided by the user. I’ve also upgraded both…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Leaked Windsurf prompt

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/leaked-windsurf-prompt/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Leaked Windsurf prompt Feedly Summary: Leaked Windsurf prompt The Windurf Editor is Codeium’s highly regarded entrant into the fork-of-VS-code AI-enhanced IDE model first pioneered by Cursor (and by VS Code itself). I heard online that it had a quirky system prompt, and was able to replicate that…

  • Hacker News: AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption

    Source URL: https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption Source: Hacker News Title: AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how the integration of AI models in software development workflows has impacted technology adoption. It highlights a bias towards certain technologies due to the cut-off dates of training data and the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o3-mini-documentation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation Feedly Summary: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/openai-reasoning-models-advice-on-prompting/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting Feedly Summary: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting OpenAI’s documentation for their o1 and o3 “reasoning models" includes some interesting tips on how to best prompt them: Developer messages are the new system messages: Starting with o1-2024-12-17, reasoning models support developer…