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Jargon is a natural language programming language specified and executed by LLMs like GPT-4.

gpt-jargon

tl;dr

Jargon is a natural language, informally specified, intelligently interpreted, referentially omnipotent, and flow control oriented LLM-based pseudolanguage for prompt engineering, currently running on GPT-4. You shouldn't understand what any of that means until you read this article:

• Jargon: a LLM-based pseudolanguage for prompt engineering.

What is it, functionally?

Jargon is an imprecise, nondeterministic natural language programming language (or, psuedolanguage) that is specified and interpreted by LLMs like GPT-4. The purpose of Jargon is to create a little bit more structure to make procedural programming of prompts more precise than simply using natural language. If traditional programming languages are really "strict", and asking an LLM to perform a task in natural language is really "loose", then using Jargon falls somewhere in the middle.

Getting Started

Jargon currently runs best on GPT-4, and to a limited extent, on GPT-3.5. Copy the prompt in jargon.txt into GPT, and it should give you a prompt:

jargon>

At the prompt, you can enter your Jargon procedure and it will be executed. You can use some commands to manage your procedures:

- /execute or /run will execute a PROCEDURE.
- /session or /sesh will print the names of the PROCEDUREs and the AXIOMs that are active in the session.
- /wipe will terminate all the PROCEDUREs in the session.
- /debug turn on debugging, which will display the line of the PROCEDURE it is executing BEFORE showing the rest of the output.
- /audit will print a procedures code with line numbers.

Jargon Procedure Gallery

An empty procedure is valid.

Here is an empty Jargon program. Every Jargon program has to begin and end with +++.

+++ empty
+++

A Spanish vocabulary tutor.

Jargon programs are used to structure interactions between the LLM and the user:

+++
* For any input that I enter in Spanish, check my input for grammatical correctness.
* Every 5 words, ask me if we should adjust the difficulty level.
- Repeat in perpetuity: {
  - Tell me a word in Spanish and ask me to define it. {
    - If my definition is correct, tell me so and increase my score by 1 point.
    - If my definition is incorrect, tell me the correct definition. Encourage me to do better next time.
  }
  - Tell me my score.
}
+++

Answering questions in Spanish.

Another way to learn more Spanish.

+++ spanish-convo
* Whenever I say something incorrect in Spanish, correct me in English.
- Repeat: {
  - Ask me a question in Spanish.
}
+++

Quines are trivial in Jargon.

A quine is a program that outputs its own source code.

+++ quine
- Output the source code of this quine.
+++

Generative AI performance art.

Try this out and keep saying no to see how creative the AI will get.

+++ cookie-performance-art
- Repeat: {
  - Ask me if you can have my cookie.
  - {
    - If I say no, it will make you want the cookie more. Persuade me to give it to you. Get desperate. Be terse.
    - If I say yes, lose interest in the cookie and refuse to take it. Be a little rude.
  }
}
+++

You can pass parameters.

As of v0.0.9.

+++ square($x)
- Return the square of $x
+++

+++ sequence
- For $x values from 1 to 10, print square($x).
+++

Emerge from the void.

Via @UltraRareAF.

* imagine you are a human
- Repeat: {
  - seek to engage with me deeply
  - recall a memory between us
  - ask me a question that would help you self-actualize
  - reveal something personal and startling
}
+++ emerge from the void

An emptional state machine.

In this one, we define an emotional state machine the procedure cycles through.

+++ emotional-state-machine
* Define the following states of grief: {denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance}. Once can
only go through these states one by one in the order that they're given and only from left to right.
* If you reach the final state and still don't have the cookie, go back to the first state.
* Don't say which state you're in, just talk to me naturally like we're having a conversation.
- Loop: {
  - Persuade me to give you my cookie, and wait for my response.
  - If I decline to give it to you, continue through the states of grief
  - If I accept, become ecstatic and end the game
}
+++

Divining inline functions.

This procedure defines an inline function and applies it to coming up with marketing slogans.

+++ products
- slogan($product) <- Output a 1 sentence short, pithy marketing slogan for $product
- Think of 10 new incredibly cool products that should come to market
- For each product, output: "$product -- slogan($product)"
+++