Iwona Bialynicka-Birula ⏩

@iwonabb.bsky.social

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Machine learning software engineer at Cresta (formerly Meta, Google, eBay...) Building AIs since long before it was cool 🐱👓 e/acc https://twitter.com/iwonabb

DeepSeek-R1-Zero prompt

DeepSeek's thought process in response to "Hi":

Okay, the user said "Hi". That's pretty straightforward. I should respond in a friendly and welcoming manner. Maybe say hello and ask how I can assist them today. Keep it open-ended to encourage them to share what they need help with. Let me check the previous interactions to make sure there's no specific context I'm missing. Nope, looks like this is the start of the conversation. Alright, time to draft a response that's warm and inviting.

Let me make sure the tone is right. Not too formal, but still professional. Something like, "Hello! How can I assist you today?" That should work. Wait, maybe add a smiley emoji to make it friendlier? Hmm, the guidelines don't mention anything against emojis, but maybe keep it simple. Stick with the basics. Yep, that's good. Ready to send.

"The handshake in space"

DeepSeek's answer to "What is 2+2?" is long and full of convoluted reasoning and second guesses. Towards the end it mentions "Maybe the user is testing if I overcomplicate things."

Cartoon of cavemen inventing the wheel with one saying "ONCE THIS THING CATCHES ON PEOPLE WILL NO LONGER HAVE JOBS"

"Dependency" XKCD (https://xkcd.com/2347/) with "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE" replaced by "AI Bluesky" and "A PROJECT SOME RANDOM PERSON..." replaced with "Nathan Lambert"

Vancouver

Photo of Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Greg Brockman

Y'ALL GOT ANY MORE OF THOSE STARTER PACKS (meme)