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Had to pick between two AI prompts for a mashup, chose the boring one by accident
I was making a mashup of a vintage typewriter and a spaceship control panel. Tried a prompt that said "steampunk typewriter meets NASA 1970s" and another that was just "space typewriter with buttons and levers". Picked the simple one because I was tired. Output was just a regular typewriter with some LEDs glued on. Totally flat. My buddy used the steampunk one and got a thing with brass gears and flame vents. Should have gone with the weird description every time.
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thompson.nathan5d ago
Always bet on the wild prompt.
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wilson.kelly5d ago
@thompson.nathan has a point for sure, but I gotta push back here. Sometimes the simple prompt forces the AI to actually think instead of just piling on random cool words. If your buddy got brass gears and flame vents, that stuff probably had nothing to do with spaceship controls anyway, just visual noise. The boring option usually gives you a cleaner base to build on, and you can always add the weird stuff yourself later.
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