Need help please from someone with php Knowledge

I am still at the early stages of learning php and would like to modify my child theme by combining the following code:

<div class="frontPageComment">
<a href ="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#comments"><?php  comments_number('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></a>
</div>

with

<?php echo apply_atomic_shortcode( 'byline', '<div class="byline">' . __( '[entry-author] [entry-edit-link before=" | "]', hybrid_get_textdomain() ) . "| " . human_time_diff(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . ' ago'  . '</div>' )  ; ?>

what I am trying to do is to show the comments link right after the time posted text(human_time_diff) in the byline.

Thank you very much for any help.