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This is how you get precious takes like this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322362

> First impression: I need to dive into this hackernews reply mockup thing thoroughly without any fluff or self-promotion. My persona should be ..., energetic with health/tech insights but casual and relatable.

> Looking at the constraints: short, punchy between 50-80 characters total—probably multiple one-sentence paragraphs here to fit that brevity while keeping it engaging.

> User specified avoiding "Hey" or "absolutely."

Lots more in its other comments (you need [showdead] on).



I don't understand why someone would go through the effort to prompt that when the comments it suggested are total garbage, and it seems like would take similar effort to produce a low quality human written comment.


If I had to guess, it's probably an attempt to automate karma farming over time to make an account look legit later on.




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