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😎 What is the opposite of self-awareness? Help me find an appropriate term as I’m completely out of words for something I saw posted on the Internet 🤖 The opposite of self-awareness can be described by several terms depending on the context and nuance you’re aiming for. If self-awareness is understood as the recognition of one’s own emotions, desires, and characteristics, its opposite could be defined as: Unconsciousness: In the broadest sense, lacking awareness of oneself and one’s surroundings, but it typically applies to a lack of conscious cognition rather than the psychological understanding of self-awareness. Ignorance: Lacking knowledge or …

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Introducing a new section in Talking to Chatbots: Hiring Chatbots. In this series of chats, we will be conducting job interviews with chatbots – either a standard version of the most popular LLMs or a customized GPT or Character – and we’ll make them compete for the job. The chatbot with the best answer to our question wins and gets published. The rest of the answers will be listed, ranked, and shared in a signature SCBN chatbot battle chart. With the SCBN scores, I value adherence to my prompt instructions (role-playing is important in this case, which most chatbots fail …

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Extending the reach of this post, originally shared on LinkedIn, to a larger audience: The great twentieth-century fear was the fear of being replaced by a machine. The great twenty-first-century fear is the fear of being replaced by a lower-paid, less knowledgeable human augmented by a machine. “Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up” by William Poundstone (read more) This is probably one of those posts that will be deleted after reaching a certain number of impressions. In the book mentioned earlier, William Poundstone also discusses the Google effect and …

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😎 I’ll lose some sales and my boss won’t be happy. What can I do? 🤖 I’m sorry to hear that you are facing this challenge. Losing sales can be stressful and disappointing, but it doesn’t mean you are a bad salesperson or that you can’t improve your performance. Here are some possible steps you can take to deal with this situation: •  Analyze the reasons why you are losing sales. Is it because of the market conditions, the product quality, the customer preferences, the competition, or your own skills and strategies? Try to identify the factors that are within …

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