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Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-20 Cached

Singapore's National Library Board has launched ReadSG, a five-year pilot program that uses micropayments and gamification to encourage daily reading habits among citizens.

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The Programming Ape (Code Hale, 2012) [video]

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-12 Cached

The article explains that software should be designed to match human cognitive systems, particularly the fast intuition and slow attention processes, for better effectiveness and user experience.

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Deal Me Maybe: The Role of Emotions in Multi-Agent Negotiation

arXiv cs.AI ↗ · 2026-08-10 Cached

This paper studies how prompt-conditioned emotions affect LLM-based price negotiation, finding that emotions strongly shape outcomes—angry buyers almost never reach agreement while happy buyers agree more often but get worse prices—raising concerns for emotion-conditioned agents in commerce.

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Don't Subscribe So Casually

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-05-26 Cached

An opinion piece warning that subscriptions are more than casual purchases—they shape future behavior and identity, with AI chatbots like ChatGPT making this effect more potent and addictive.

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The butterfly effect in LLM. Persona format alone (prose vs bullets) flipped an LLM’s behavior by 76 points.

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence ↗ · 2026-05-22

A study demonstrates that simply changing the formatting (prose vs bullet points) of a persona prompt dramatically flips an LLM's behavior in a Prisoner's Dilemma, from 96% cooperation to 20%, illustrating extreme sensitivity to format despite identical content (p < 0.001).

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Beyond Rational Illusion: Behaviorally Realistic Strategic Classification

arXiv cs.AI ↗ · 2026-05-20

The paper identifies the limitation of assuming rational agents in strategic classification and proposes the Prospect-Guided Strategic Framework (Pro-SF), which incorporates cognitive biases from prospect theory to model behaviorally realistic strategic manipulations.

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