Comment by ANewFormation

14 days ago

So is a command prompt.

Command prompts don't speak English.

Command prompts don't get asked questions like "What do you think about [topic]?" and have to generate a response based on their study of human-written texts.

  • There is again no need for first person pronouns there.

    E.g. 'File not found' vs 'Sorry I could not find the file you were looking for.' Same stuff, but one just adds an artificial and unnecessary anthropomorphization.

    • A procedure is agnostic past the procedural rules (a calculator only follows a determined flow the way anyone could do without relevant differences); a stochastic process is inherently personal (non deterministic processes have internal biases).

      In your example:

      -- "iteration over filenames table reaches end → file not found";

      -- "non-deterministic choice over lookup strategy does not return a positive → sorry I could not find the item"

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    • Sure but I don't control the LLM's first person pronouns.

      It anthropromorphizes itself.

Agnew, if you converse with your command prompt we are glad you came here for a break ;)