I read The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, written in Randall Munroe’s style. Here is the conversation. I began with the prompt: Rewrite the first chapter Primo Levi’s The Periodic table in the style of Randall Munroe. Same content, but as if Primo Levi had written it in Randall Munroe’s style. After that, for each chapter, I prompted: Continue! Same depth, same style. ...
TL;DR: Don’t ask AI agents for one output. Ask for a dozen, each in the style of an expert. Share what works best. AI agents build apps, analyze data, and visualize it surprisingly well, these days. We used to tell LLMs exactly what to do. If you’re an expert, this is still useful. An expert analyst can do better analyses than an AI agent. An expert designer or data visualizer can tell an AI agent exactly how to design it. ...
I’m using AI to read books by: Summarizing. This tells me what the books is about, the key points it makes and the main takeaways. It also helps me decide if I want to dig deeper. Fact-checking. I can find mistakes, alternate perspectives, and biases. That’s a huge win! Re-authoring. I can write it in the style of Malcolm Gladwell, Randall Munroe, Richard Feynman, or anyone else I like. Makes dense prose much more enjoyable. So far, I’ve applied this at different levels - and I’m sure there are more possibilities: ...
Style transfer is my newly discovered AI super-power: having AI rewrite in someone’s style. EXAMPLE 1: Kalama Sutta. I asked Claude to “Rewrite this Kalama Sutta translation. Pick an author whose style is modern, thoughtful, and VERY readable. Mention the author and rewrite in their style.” The original sounds like this: https://lnkd.in/gQhi8CBY “It is proper for you, Kalamas, to doubt, to be uncertain; uncertainty has arisen in you about what is doubtful. Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor…” ...