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anishguptayesterday at 8:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Interesting, I just asked the question "what number would you choose between 1-5" gemini answered 3 for me in my separate session (default without any persona) but in this website it tends to choose 5


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jesenatortoday at 5:25 AM

There's more to the prompt in the back end, which: - gives it the options along with the letters A, B, C, etc. - tells it pretty forcefully that it HAS to pick from among the options - tells it how to format the response and its reasoning so we can parse it

So these things all affect its response, especially for questions that ask for randomness or are not strongly held values.