Comment by jesse_ash
1 day ago
Hah! I also thought about it this way and ended up added a "purple elephant rule" to my pi prompt to discourage the behaviour, since I figured LLMs lean on metaphors so much.
Of course, I quickly reverted this change as purple elephants started cropping up in comments and other prose :)
You tried to discourage it from fixating on negatives by telling it not to fixate on negatives? And it didn't work?
Yes shocking.