Comment by jamestimmins
9 days ago
With Claude I often say “no glazing” and have told it to take the persona of Paul Bettany’s character in Margin Call, a nice enough but blunt/unimpressed senior colleague who doesn’t beat around the bush. Works pretty well.
This is perfect, especially because I spend a good amount of time talking about financial topics with the bots. Will try this one out!
How... does it know what this persona is like? I suppose somewhere it's read (or, "gathered input") about this character..
Like with anything LLM. It doesn't "know" anything.
It simply compliess without knowing who you are talking about. And you uphold the illusion by not questioning it.
All it does is produce deterministic output based on it's training data.
It doesnt even really comply, Id say.It just predicts whats the most likely next text token.
Interesting question. I described what I liked about his character, so maybe it's just using that and is nodding along to the character's name. Maybe it has access to the script or some analysis of the character.
most likely it was trained on tons of fan ficfion where his character is thoroughly described.
The screenplay script is on line:
https://www.scriptslug.com/script/margin-call-2011
It doesn't, it would placebo "Fake it 'til you make it" based on other context.
Oh my God, I love it. I would have done Spacey's character, maybe, but the gist is great.
I would take Spacey's character from Baby Driver.
I just need Carmelo. “Done.”