Tag: system prompt

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Paul Gauthier

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/paul-gauthier/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Paul Gauthier Feedly Summary: In my experience with AI coding, very large context windows aren’t useful in practice. Every model seems to get confused when you feed them more than ~25-30k tokens. The models stop obeying their system prompts, can’t correctly find/transcribe pieces of code in…