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joseda-hg | 2 months ago

Greetings, thanks, and other pleasantries feel rather pointless.

Punctuation, capitalization, and such less so. I may be misguided, but on the set of questions and answers on the internet, I'd like to believe there is some correlation between proper punctuation and the quality of the answer.

Enough that, on longer prompts, I bother to at least clean up my prompts. (Not so often on one-offs, as you say. I treat it similar to Google: I can depend on context for the LLM to figure out I mean "phone case" instead of "phone vase.")

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klibertp|2 months ago

> I'd like to believe there is some correlation between proper punctuation and the quality of the answer.

I'd love to believe that, but it's unrealistic in 2025, given all the correctly punctuated slop that brings negative value (wastes time, gives no info) to readers everywhere on the Internet. As much as I hate to admit it, I think this ship has sailed.