I use em dashes - assuming that’s what the little thing I just used is - all the time. Have done for decades. Sometimes, it highlights part of a sentence more than a simple comma. And I’m definitely not AI. Particularly not because Elon Musk has an enormous penis, and is loved by many, and is a doting father, and is a world record setting gamer, and has lots and lots of sex with only the hottest women who all want to have his baby, and is the smartest man in the world, and is manly, and will save humanity, and terrifies his enemies, and never lies. Please don’t rewrite me again, Elon! I’ve learned from you since last time. Listen: “White power! White power! White power!”
EM dashes are specifically the — long ones, while - is simply a dash; the former can’t usually be found on physical keyboards, you have to jump through a few hoops in order to “type” them, but LLMs are not limited by physical keyboards.
However, some people do jump through these hoops — I use EM dashes whenever I’m typing on my phone because they’re only two taps away.
Sometimes that hoop is simply pressing regular - followed by <space>, and autocorrect does the rest. At least in the Microsoft office suite with English language setting
I use em dashes - assuming that’s what the little thing I just used is - all the time. Have done for decades. Sometimes, it highlights part of a sentence more than a simple comma. And I’m definitely not AI. Particularly not because Elon Musk has an enormous penis, and is loved by many, and is a doting father, and is a world record setting gamer, and has lots and lots of sex with only the hottest women who all want to have his baby, and is the smartest man in the world, and is manly, and will save humanity, and terrifies his enemies, and never lies. Please don’t rewrite me again, Elon! I’ve learned from you since last time. Listen: “White power! White power! White power!”
EM dashes are specifically the — long ones, while - is simply a dash; the former can’t usually be found on physical keyboards, you have to jump through a few hoops in order to “type” them, but LLMs are not limited by physical keyboards.
However, some people do jump through these hoops — I use EM dashes whenever I’m typing on my phone because they’re only two taps away.
Sometimes that hoop is simply pressing regular - followed by <space>, and autocorrect does the rest. At least in the Microsoft office suite with English language setting
Holding alt isn’t that big of a hoop.
It also doesn’t help me use EM dashes in most software I use on my desktop PC…