Eleanor SaittaMay 23, 2023

Tech speakers, it's 2023. Stop using moms as your example of a non-technical audience. It's wrong, its not funny, and whatever you were saying, now most of your audience is not thinking about it.

Just use the exec team as an example instead and get on with your life.

Show threadGina C. Pieters, Ph.D.
@dymaxion Teaching side here: A long time ago someone told me the "trick" of making the prompt be "Explain it to a reporter of a major, public interest news-outlet. You have only a few sentences. " instead of "Explain it to your mother/ grandparents/etc." Seems like it may work here as well? ("Can you explain to a reporter why they would need this/ how this works/etc).
May 23, 2023 at 12:02pmWeb
Show threadLisPiMay 23, 2023

@ginapieters @dymaxion I've got very little faith in local media to understand anything at all, regardless of how incorrectly oversimplified one makes things.

Often the concept of a magical box is about as much as you can give for details. It's sad.

Show threadGina C. Pieters, Ph.D.May 23, 2023
@lispi314 Which is what makes it a great baseline prompt setting!
Show threadLisPiMay 23, 2023
@ginapieters Not really, it just makes me give up before starting. "It just works, go read on $link if you actually want to know how."
Show threadGina C. Pieters, Ph.D.May 23, 2023
@lispi314 We're just going to have to disagree then. 🙂