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		bigiain 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using LLMs at Oxide I think probably my most common prompt is "Make it shorter. No more than ($x) (words\|sentences\|paragraphs)."

pxc 32 days ago [–]

I've never been able to get that to work. LLMs can't count; they don't actually know how long their output is.

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