Comment by OutOfHere
8 hours ago
Why is it hard? Ask it to write professionally in mid-twentieth century style English, and without resorting to the clickbait style of writing.
In any event, other LLMs may not automatically have the problem, and don't even require such a prompt. This is a Claude problem.
I don’t think you realize how long ago the middle of the 20th century was.
What does the age of the style have to do with anything? You can ask them to write like Dickens or the King James bible or in Caesar's Latin, too, and these are even older.
In fairness, some of those older styles could alienate a reader, whereas mid-20th century style is practically like our own. To emphasize, this is narrowly about applying the style from an era, not the English from an era.
I don't think you realize the prompt actually works. The word "style" does it. I guess you like clickbait too much.