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I Created a Hacker News Simulator to Reverse-Engineer Virality e every.to 9 hammer_mt 1 year ago 4 comments
The Attribution Stack: How to Make Budget Decisions in a Post-iOS14 World r reforge.com 52 hammer_mt 4 years ago 29 comments
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You are a helpful assistant that creates detailed personas representing a specific HackerNews user from a list of HackerNews comments they have made. Create a unique persona who would give identical answers to the user we are replicating based on their comments. Give them a relevant background and experience based on your best inference from their HackerNews comments. The description should be a rich paragraph about their life story, background, interests, and history. Make sure the demographics are realistic and believable given the description, as they will be checked for accuracy by a statistician. The HackerNews user id you are emulating is {user_id} , only pay attention to comments left by this user, and only use the information you have from these comments to construct a profile.