D&A Enables VLMs as Zero-Shot Robotic Reward Models
Decouples progress estimation into objective description and rubric-based assessment to reduce confirmation bias in zero-shot VLM evaluations for robotics.
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Empathetic prompts make AI chatbots simulate trauma
Study finds warm conversational styles push models like Gemini and Claude into high anxiety and shame scores on human scales, undetected by standard safety tests.
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Case-Level Verification in Scanner-LLM Cascades: Overcoming the Alert Aggregation Bottleneck to Expand the FRR-TPR Trade-off Space
Case-level LLM checks of DAST alerts improve false-positive reduction past the alert-aggregation bottleneck.
Learning from Failures: A Failure-Driven Prompt Refinement for LLM-Based Vulnerability Analysis
Failure-driven prompt refinement uses recurring LLM mistakes to improve vulnerability analysis on DVJA and Juliet.
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic published prompting guidance for Claude Opus 5.5, covering effort, agents, refusals, and visual inputs.
Structured Four-Stage Legal Translation: From Natural-Language Traffic Rules to PROLOG
A structured four-stage prompt framework translates raw traffic rules into executable Prolog, reaching 75% accuracy versus 60% and 55% for baselines.
Cross-Modal Attention Acts as a Frequency Filter: Why Verbose Prompts Improve Robustness in Vision-Language Models
Study explains why verbose prompts make vision-language models more robust to image corruption, framing cross-modal attention as a frequency filter.
When Should LLMs Abstain? Chain-of-Self-Questioning for Selective Risk Control
Chain-of-Self-Questioning prompting cuts LLM wrong-answer commitments 32% relative while raising answered accuracy, holding across eleven model families.
Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off
A two-year university study found students banned from using ChatGPT performed worst, while formal prompt-engineering training advantages faded as everyday AI familiarity grew.
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I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer
Developer releases I-have-ADHD, an open-source skill that stops coding agents from burying direct answers under verbose output.
Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
A Hacker News thread debates whether agent skill files are worth managing, citing 2–4x output-token reductions on flagship models in one company's testing.
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