Ask HN: Is there an emerging pattern for NEGATIVESKILLS.md files?

3 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by mehmetoguzderin

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2 Comments

MrCoffee7

7 hours ago

This paper wasn't for SKILLS per se, but for LLMs, and suggests that LLMs can't follow too many constraints at one time very well https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12426 . Other papers suggest that LLMs show more information sparsity in the results with negative constraints.

mehmetoguzderin

6 hours ago

Good one; reading this briefly took me back to the days of “Needle in a Haystack” being super challenging for LLMs. Maybe there needs to be a benchmark of “Rule in a Haystack” (similar to information one, testing not only independent rules also the ones that need hops) to clarify model performance regarding this. Thank you for the resource.