#Writer#story fuel: Think about these two paragraphs, read the article, then write a story. Or read Jean M Auel's The Mammoth Hunters.
Neanderthals disappeared roughly 40,000 years ago. But before they died out, some of them mated with early humans—which is why modern humans of non-African ancestry have between 1 and 4 percent Neanderthal DNA. The reconstruction of Shanidar Z makes it “perhaps easier to see how interbreeding occurred between our species,” says Emma Pomeroy, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Cambridge who helped discover Shanidar Z, in a statement.
“The skulls of Neanderthals and humans look very different,” she says. “Neanderthal skulls have huge brow ridges and lack chins, with a projecting midface that results in more prominent noses. But the recreated face suggests those differences were not so stark in life.”
I made this piece for an contest with the prompt "Electronic Emotions". I thought the result was kind of meh, and only decided to post it because, well, the work was already done, no point in letting it go to waste.
Not only did it win, but did so with one of the highest number of votes ever received. There is a lesson in there I'm still working on learning.
Both #ChatGPT and #Gemini have changed recently and I can no longer 'copyedit' my text with them. They both massively rewrite the text, making it far more intense and 'corporate' in an eerie way. My voice is lost and replaced by a hyper PR exec.
I've tried "Copyedit the following text, editing only for grammar and spelling, keeping my vocabulary: <text>" as a prompt but they STILL massacre it.
Looking for #prompt suggestions to "just copyedit damnit"
Fabric is a new open-source project that provides a framework to support AI applications. The goal of Fabric is to unify the communication with AI agents (e.g., LLMs, etc.) by creating a library of Patterns (e.g., prompts) for day-to-day use cases.