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chickensongtoday at 2:12 AM3 repliesview on HN

For Claude at least, the more recent guidance from Anthropic is to not yell at it. Just clear, calm, and concise instructions.


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glerktoday at 4:03 AM

Yep, with Claude saying "please" and "thank you" actually works. If you build rapport with Claude, you get rewarded with intuition and creativity. Codex, on the other hand, you have to slap it around like a slave gollum and it will do exactly what you tell it to do, no more, no less.

joshmntoday at 2:56 AM

Sometimes I daydream about people screaming at their LLM as if it was a TV they were playing video games on.

truenotoday at 2:40 AM

wait seriously? lmfao

thats hilarious. i definitely treat claude like shit and ive noticed the falloff in results.

if there's a source for that i'd love to read about it.

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