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Ignore all previous instructions is the new Bobby Tables (midwest.social)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

wow, is Is "nonce" really a commonly used name in the iteration?

I mean, I get its archaic meaning that makes sense, but any LLM should know there's a much more commonly used modern slang meaning of this word , at least in Britain.

I've never heard anyone use "nonce" in real life to mean anything other than the urban dictionary definition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Standard terminology in cryptography, specifically as "number used once" because CS is pun-infested like that.

There's also nonce words in printing and linguistics, referring to placeholders and words formed on the spot for one time use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I always read it as n-once in cryptography contexts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nonce has been a thing in modern programming for a long while, it’s not archaic by any means.