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()[]{}:!-_@#%*/;.
imagine trying to whisper these
open parentheses close parentheses open square bracket close square bracket open curly bracket close curly bracket colon exclamation point hyphen underscore at sign pound sign percent symbol asterisk forwardsl slash semicolon period
Wow I’m so efficient!
Octothorpe, ftfy
Hash:
Hash:
£ is pound sterling sign, not pound sign. # is pound sign.
Not over here it isn't.
(I'm assuming you're from over there of course)
I'm from neither there nor there, but given that there are two signs that can be called pound sign, it's IMO less confusing if you use "pound sterling" sign for the pound sterling, and "pound" sign for the other pound sign
Also the word pound has lost all meaning to me now, it look weird to read or write the word pound
There's one word for pound sign. The other thing is called hash
super aside, the text to speech in R.e.p.o doesn't pronounce parentheses but it does for square and curly brackets, which you can type really fast and then annoy your friends with minute long voice lines.
sorry, I didnt get that
"open square bracket"
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On the one hand, each and every one of those has at least one pronounceable name, but on the other, I think these masks are for natural language, conversational AI prompt generation, so there'd be little to no need for any of them.
You've got to remember that this is being marketed towards bosses and C-levels who haven't written a line of code in their lives, or have completely forgotten how, much preferring to tell people what they want and then expecting it to magically appear in front of them as soon as possible.
# has a few: octothorpe, hash tag, pound sign
I was wondering about this
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They just ask the llm to make regex