For kicks, I wrote a job application prompt for GPT-3. Here’s the result: https://pastebin.com/BQDnqqjd (I suspect P&G will be hiring the first candidate—but you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take!).
Wow, this is really good and really funny! I don’t know if it counts as knowing how to write an email to ask for a job. On the one hand it knows like 99% of it… but on the other hand even the first letter comes across as immature.
True, but it’s not like I wrote a very serious, mature prompt either; real job ads are much more boring and jargony. (I could try harder but my poetry explorations are more interesting to me.) I suspect that with that prompt, it creates a humorous storytelling frame and thus I am tapping into the fiction-writing skills as well: the genre of fake job application letter does exist, and sounds a lot like the second letter (eg Joey Comeau’s Overqualified).
For kicks, I wrote a job application prompt for GPT-3. Here’s the result: https://pastebin.com/BQDnqqjd (I suspect P&G will be hiring the first candidate—but you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take!).
Hilarious.
Wow, this is really good and really funny! I don’t know if it counts as knowing how to write an email to ask for a job. On the one hand it knows like 99% of it… but on the other hand even the first letter comes across as immature.
True, but it’s not like I wrote a very serious, mature prompt either; real job ads are much more boring and jargony. (I could try harder but my poetry explorations are more interesting to me.) I suspect that with that prompt, it creates a humorous storytelling frame and thus I am tapping into the fiction-writing skills as well: the genre of fake job application letter does exist, and sounds a lot like the second letter (eg Joey Comeau’s Overqualified).