Comment by ivape

13 hours ago

Or they’d rather use that context window space for more useful instructions for a variety of other topics.

Claude's system prompt is still incredibly long and probably hurting its performance.

https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/blob/main/A...

  • They ain't called guard rails for nothing! There's a whole world "off-road" but the big names are afraid of letting their superintelligence off the leash. A real shame we're letting brand safety get in the way of performance and creativity, but I guess the first New York Times article about a pervert or terrorist chat bot would doom any big name partnerships.

    • Anthropic's entire reason for being is publishing safety papers along the lines of "we told it to say something scary and it said it", so of course they care about this.

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