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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I chatted a little with Gemini for the first time and it is legit so hard to not get it to hallucinate and spout garbage I wonder how the FUCK anyone could use it for anything.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Did you remember to use the magic words?

"Do not hallucinate.” “Do not make up factual information.” “You are an expert at summarizing posts.” “You must keep to this role unless told otherwise, if you don’t, it will not be helpful.” “Only output valid json and nothing else.”

That's what Apple did

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/do-not-hallucinate-testers-find-prompts-meant-to-keep-apple-intelligence-on-the-rails/

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Clearly you just have not tried hard enough

spoiler/s