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- Sandboxing Python with Win32 App Isolation
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AI for Web Devs: Addressing Bugs, Security, & Reliability
Simon Willison has pointed out several examples of prompt injection attacks and why it may never be a solved problem:
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Where Have All the Websites Gone?
I want more people to have link blogs.
I have one in the sidebar of https://simonwillison.net/ which I've been running since November 2003. You can search through all 6,836 links here: https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark
I can post things to it with a bookmarklet. It has an Atom feed.
It's such a low-friction way of publishing. A lot of https://daringfireball.net works like this too. I also like https://waxy.org/ and https://kottke.org/ for this.
I'd love to see more of these.
- Ask HN: Is it feasible to train my own LLM?
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Moving Away from Substack
My approach is to publish to my own blog at https://simonwillison.net and then copy and paste content from that into a Substack newsletter at https://simonw.substack.com a few times a month.
It's been working really well.
Substack don't have an API, but they do support copy and paste - so I built myself a tool that assembles my blog content into rich text I can copy and paste straight into the Substack editor.
I wrote about how that works here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/4/substack-observable/
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Building a Blog in Django
Hah, yeah securing something like WordPress can be a challenge, especially if you're running a bunch of plugins.
My blog is a pretty straight-forward Django setup without many other dependencies, so it's a lot less of an attack surface: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog
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Show HN: Superfunctions – AI prompt templates as an API
That specific prompt is just an example and it's pretty bad, it was the shortest and simplest prompt I could come up with that would be easily understood.
You can set response content-types (text, html, json, etc...). If you use json it will get pretty good results because I have some is some logic to attempt to pick out json or json5 objects from the text output. I dont yet have logic to support json arrays, but I'm hoping to add that soon.
But still client side validation is needed for applications with untrusted input. I dont attempt to solve prompt injection. I saw a lot of interesting posts on this topic from this blog https://simonwillison.net/. I need to find sometime to read more about it.
Try this one instead, it should be better
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Stopping at 90%
I've started to consider "commit to writing about it" as the price I have to pay for giving into the lure of another project. It's one of the main reasons I publish so much content on https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net
A project with a published write-up unlocks so much more value than one which you complete without giving others a chance of understanding what you built.
I've maintained internal blogs (sometimes just a Slack channel or Confluence area) at previous employers for this purpose too.
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Stanford A.I. Courses
I think you are asking specifically about practical LLM engineering and not the underlying science.
Honestly this is all moving so fast you can do well by reading the news, following a few reddits/substacks, and skimming the prompt engineering papers as they come out every week (!).
https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer provides an early manifesto for this nascent layer of the stack.
Zvi writes a good roundup (though he is concerned mostly with alignment so skip if you don’t like that angle): https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-18-the-great-debate-debates
Simon W has some good writeups too: https://simonwillison.net/
I strongly recommend playing with the OpenAI APIs and working with langchain in a Colab notebook to get a feel for how these all fit together. Also, the tools here are incredibly simple and easy to understand (very new) so looking at, say, https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/tree/main/simpleai... or https://github.com/smol-ai/developer and digging in to the prompts, what goes in system vs assistant roles, how you gourde the LLM, etc.
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Seeking Your Top Recommendations for Resources on ChatGPT and Generative AI
Simon Willison's Weblog
Lobsters
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What makes concurrency so hard?
var req2 = http.GetStringAsync("https://lobste.rs");
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Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself
"I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all"
Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs
- Ask HN: Interest in novel programming language for resource-constrained MCUs?
- Banned for Self-Promo
- Remove average karma, unvalued and maybe counterproductive
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What Went Wrong at Techstars?
Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess
- DesignerNews Is Shutting Down
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Show HN: Mutable.ai – Turn your codebase into a Wiki
Requesting https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters as I'm going through that codebase and would be able to provide feedback. cheers
ps. just gonna second everyone else who's saying being able to edit out incorrect data is very important, otherwise people are gonna be weary of reading repos they aren't already familiar with.
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Happy New Year HN
> Hacker News, but also lobster.rs
First time I hear about it. I think you meant https://lobste.rs
- Missing A-Record for HTTPS://Lobste.rs
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