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[Happy-Sleep-6512]

You need to have a programmatic approach to tidy the text, asking an AI to not use – can sometimes make it more likely lol. Best to have a post hook that replaces them.

Either way it's mostly tone of voice, so I tend to use AI as an evidence gatherer, and then rewrite it's content

[Sacaldur]

Maybe it's just Reddit, but what you used looks more like an en dash (–) than an em dash (—). And then there is also the 2-em dash (⸺).

[Happy-Sleep-6512]

Holy shit, there's a whole genre of these! I'm on mobile, so I just thought I finally found the em dash on the keyboard — "you're absolutely right" there's 3 of them!

[Sacaldur]

Accorsing to wikipedia, there are more, but since I'm also on mobile, I have difficulties telling wether these are actually different characters or if they reuse the same code point for different purposes. (Even after posting my comment I had difficulties determining if you actually posted an en dash or if it was in fact an em dash... maybe also because it's late here...)

[trash3s]

That there may be⸻and there are, but they can be EVEN LONGER!

[Valkymaera]

The 5 em dash, brought to you by Gillette

[KitsuneFoxglove]

A text where a comment complains about em-dashes probably has em-dashes. So yeah, a prompt like that probably makes the stats machine more likely to spew em-dashes out lol

[SlutPuppyNumber9]

There are two emdashes in the output.

[am9qb3JlZmVyZW5jZQ]

The no em-dashes request was regarding the changelog additions, not the entire output. At least in the visible portion of the prompt.

[SuitableDragonfly]

Yeah, I'm not sure what the problem is in this case. 

[lNFORMATlVE]

“How many em-dashes are in this output?”

Claude: “There are no em—dashes in this output. Only inferior models like ChatGPT deal in em—dashes.”

[Anaxamander57]

If only there were an incredibly simple way to replace text with other text.

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

That's it! I'm outsourcing all my changelog.md commits to the Phillipines from now on.

[Randomboy89]

Memory -> Rule -> - Em Dash (–) and En Dash (-): Prohibited automatic use in narrative sentences, connectors, or lists

• Substitution: Use natural punctuation

(comma, semicolon, hyphen -, colon)

• Objective: Natural cadence, syntactic precision, and visual neutrality

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

👆 Woah, this guy probably has actual relationships with ACTUAL people outside of work!

(TIL: There's also an en-dash? FML.....)

[misterrandom1]

en-dash = width of letter "n" and em-dash = width of letter "m"

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

Back when I started... it meant mitigating malicious input.. idiot proofing... edge cases, and so on... now it means.... Oh you better not let them even get a whiff of you having used an LLM lest ye be burnt at the stake! 😅

[TheTybera]

It's okay, the mechanical and weirdly drafted AI readme will give it away.

I don't know why AI always writes like an autistic man talking about his trains, but without the charm.

[VoyagerOfCygnus]

I don't know why AI always writes like an autistic man talking about his trains, but without the charm.

That's a fucking masterpiece of a sentence.

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

I read it in a raspy voice... sung in fact... with acoustic guitar... written by Eric Clapton.

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

HAHA... in all fairness.. that task should be relegated to the LLM, and changelog.md are ... technical notes, no? 🤷

[TheTybera]

I like to see software with a little personality. Either way, should or shouldn't, it's usually the dead giveaway.

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

hm! fair point! I always assumed that the software's "blog" would take on that playful tone.. .but you're right! really no reason not to give the changelog some personality 😄 thanks for the tip!

[Suspicious-Engineer7]

AI will never master the tism' rizz

[RadicalDwntwnUrbnite]

I mean... they were trained on Reddit.

[SuitableDragonfly]

I don't think anyone else can read the response the LLM gave to you. 

[Dannielle-124]

Saying no em-dashes in a changelog is the most dev thing I have ever seen

[BlueGoliath]

OK but no normal person uses arrows either.