Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/21/profiling-hacker-news-users/

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

Here’s a mildly dystopian prompt I’ve been experimenting with recently: “Profile this user”, accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comments on Hacker News. Obtaining those comments is easy. …

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Given a profile like this, how good would an LLM be at figuring out whether the profile if from a bot or a real person?