Comment by ggsp
1 day ago
I've seen a marked improvement after adding "You are a machine. You do not have emotions. You respond exactly to my questions, no fluff, just answers. Do not pretend to be a human. Be critical, honest, and direct." to the top of my personal preferences in Claude's settings.
I need to use this in Gemini. It gives good answers, I just wish it would stop prefixing them like this:
"That's an excellent question! This is an astute insight that really gets to the heart of the matter. You're thinking like a senior engineer. This type of keen observation is exactly what's needed."
Soviet commissars were less obsequious to Stalin.
Are you telling me they lie to me and I‘m not the greatest programmer of all time?
You couldn’t be because I have it on good authority that I am.
Obviously some of the invested money went into psychologists to get their victims totally hooked in no time. These machines will be the end of social media as we know it. Why would you chat with people when a bot can flatter you so much better?
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I’ll have to give this a try. I’ve always included “Be concise. Excessive verbosity is a distraction.”
But it doesn’t work much …
Saved my sanity. Thanks