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Prompting made me a better communicator

"Prompting bridges communication" - generated using Midjourney
"Prompting bridges communication" - generated using Midjourney

Prompt Engineering has become a passion topic of mine. It's super fun to tinker with GenAI, to ask it questions and to optimize the way that I ask those questions.

The basic of Prompt Engineering are simple:

  1. Task specify a task that you want the LLM to do for you.
  2. Context give the chatbot the context that it needs to complete your task.
  3. Format how do you want the LLM to respond to you? A bullet point list? A table? A slide deck? a blogpost?
  4. Process if you already know a great process to solve the problem, tell the AI to follow it. If you don't, at least give it room to think.

Daily Note navigation in Obsidian using Dataview

Navigation between daily notes in Obsidian
Navigation between daily notes in Obsidian

Daily notes in Obsidian are ephemeral, they matter most for the day there were written and maybe the days surrounding them. But, after a week, we hardly ever refer back to them. If something truly mattered, we probably pulled it out to another note.

That being said, I often find myself wanting to refer to yesterdays note. And Obsidian doesn't provide a native way to get to yesterdays note. My current solution to this is to add links to the last and next daily note into every daily note via a template.

Generative AI is here to stay!

"A path into the AI future" - generated using Midjourney
"A path into the AI future" - generated using Midjourney

Some reflections on what 2022 showed us about the future.

Generative AI describes AI that takes a prompt and generates something from it. Prime examples include Copilot which takes code or comments as a prompt to complete the code I want to write, ChatGPT which takes a chat message and replies with a human-like answer and Stable-Diffusion (or Dall-E, or Midjourney) which takes a prompt and returns a fitting image. All of these AIs made massive progress in 2022!

The Gods of Diffusion

The Pantheon of Diffusion
The Pantheon of Diffusion

I have rencently been spending quite some time with text2image generation. And while looking around for great styles for a project I generated a "Chromatic Goddess of Colors" that I really liked. This sparked the idea within me to generate a whole pantheon of gods and see how far I could push this!

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