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Enjoying the posts Benn! If you were wondering - ChatGPTs favorite Blaze Pascal quote:

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."

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Nice, I've got a draft of some other nonsense somewhere that opens with this quote..

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+1 for more Blaze

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You could turn this into a part 2 where you use ChatGPT to assess the differences in humans between being nice and being kind. Your neutral tone was kind because it was clear and direct. Be kind if you want to be more productive, be nice if you want to feel better. East coast vs west coast, North vs south, American vs European, SQL vs NoSQL... the possibilities are endless in the kind vs nice spectrum!

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Yeah, there are so many ways that you could take something like this. This was one of times when I kept playing around - does prompt length matter? does it use more exclamation points when you're nice to it? - that I had to cut myself off to make sure I actually wrote the post about it.

Which, one more thing that this comment made me think (and I'm not sure how I got there from here, but, there I went) - I wonder if you could have different variants compete. It'd be like, write a Python function that does this thing in a few characters as possible, and see which tone can produce the best result. (Maybe that's our survival tactic too - to keep the machines from fighting us, make them fight each other.)

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