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I don't know, it seems to me that most people know how to ask a question or make a request. It's not that different. It's just that a lot of people don't understand what is possible and they freeze.
You tell them, to ask for anything you want. They uncork and say "So I can ask it for a chocolate cream pie?". Partially in jest, but they do that because they don't seem to have a comfortable knowledge of the limits. A person with little technical background has no need for output that they don't understand. Once you guide them a little and let them know they can get a recipe for a chocolate cream pie and some practical advice on how to make it, that might be helpful, but little better than just looking up a recipe. You'd have to let them know that they can find multiple variants of recipes and have it rank them, compare them, and produce a summary of the most popular types. By now they've stopped listening and have gone to the grocery store to buy a chocolate cream pie and you're standing there hoping they will give you a piece.
In summary, I wish I had some pie. What was the question?
You don't actually use AI in any professional capacity, huh
Yeah, you're probably right. Probably don't do anything with it at all, never touched it, don't understand how it works either. You, on the other hand are probably a seasoned LLM engineer. Shameful of me to not understand that.
So defensive