{"slug": "ask-hn-how-to-make-ai-better-at-writing-prose", "title": "Ask HN: How to make AI better at writing prose?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks how to improve AI prose quality, noting that current models produce sloppy, pompous, and air-filled text despite attempts with style guides and editing. The user finds it easier to write themselves, seeking approaches to overcome deeply ingrained writing patterns.", "body_md": "# Ask HN: How to make AI better at writing prose?\n\nBy remywangSource:\n\n[Hacker News AI](https://news.ycombinator.com)Current models are still notoriously bad at writing prose. It's not just the easily recognizable tics like \"load-bearing\" and \"genuinely\". The text is just sloppy, pompous, and full of air.\n\nI've tried different approaches like feeding it examples of my own writing, giving it a style guide, and iterating a few editing sessions, but it appears the way these models write/talk is rather deeply ingrained, and it usually end up easier for me just to write myself. Has anyone found a good approach to make models write better?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015703](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015703)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-make-ai-better-at-writing-prose", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ask-hn-how-to-make-ai-better-at-writing-prose-9cue", "published_at": "2026-07-23 01:27:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 01:36:24.923948+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "generative-ai", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-make-ai-better-at-writing-prose", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-make-ai-better-at-writing-prose.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-make-ai-better-at-writing-prose.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-make-ai-better-at-writing-prose.jsonld"}}