Prompting secret: ask the model to roleplay a legendary high-agency explorer
tokenbender · x · 2026-11-11
tokenbender argues the secret of great prompting is asking the model to roleplay a "legendary/high-agency player." The attached example: Pietro Miotti asked his agents what a modern Hiram Bingham would do with today's tools; they answered "LiDAR," found a dataset, and in one night flagged numerous potential ancient structures across Mexico from terrain maps.
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