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SchemaLoad05/15/20251 replyview on HN

Aside from just getting more useful responses back, I think it's just bad for your brain to treat something that acts like a person with disrespect. Becomes "it's just a chatbot", "It's just a dog", "It's just a low level customer support worker".


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ben_w05/15/2025

While I also agree with you on that, there are also prompts that make them not act like a person at all, and prompts can be write-once-use-many which lessens the impact of that.

This is why I tend to lead with the "quality of response" argument rather than the "user's own mind" argument.