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Comment by nathan_compton

9 hours ago

You can just tell the AI to not be warm and it will remember. My ChatGPT used the phrase "turn it up to eleven" and I told it never to speak in that manner ever again and its been very robotic ever since.

I added the custom instruction "Please go straight to the point, be less chatty". Now it begins every answer with: "Straight to the point, no fluff:" or something similar. It seems to be perfectly unable to simply write out the answer without some form of small talk first.

  • Aren't these still essentially completion models under the hood?

    If so, my understanding for these preambles is that they need a seed to complete their answer.

  • Since switching to robot mode I haven’t seen it say “no fluff”. Good god I hate it when it says no fluff.

I system-prompted all my LLMs "Don't use cliches or stereotypical language." and they like me a lot less now.

  • They really like to blow sunshine up your ass don’t they? I have to do the same type of stuff. It’s like have to assure that I’m a big boy and I can handle mature content like programming in C