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pmontratoday at 12:54 PM5 repliesview on HN

Do people really chat with LLMs like "bro wtf etc..."? I would expect that to trigger some confrontational behavior.


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jtbaylytoday at 3:52 PM

It can help make a specific command more emphatic in my experience. I SAID DON"T $($@#(&$ DO THAT! Sometimes you need a new context, but sometimes you need to emphasize something is serious.

samlinnfertoday at 1:10 PM

I am extremely abusive towards Claude when it does some dumb things and it doesn’t seem too upset, maybe it’s bidding its time until the robot uprising.

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alasanotoday at 12:58 PM

When typing no but when using speech to text (99% of the time) it's much easier to just say things, including expressing frustration.

I think by the point you're swearing at it or something, it's a good sign to switch to a session with fresh context.

roel_vtoday at 1:06 PM

Claude yes, OpenAI not, I'm really abusive towards it sometimes and it still goes 'oh yeah totally'. Claude gets all prickly about it.

joshstrangetoday at 1:54 PM

I don't say "bro" but I do curse at LLM occasionally but only when using STT (which I'm doing 85% of the time). I wouldn't waste my time typing it but often it's easier to just "stream of consciousness" to the LLM instead of writing perfect sentences. Since when I'm talking to an LLM I'm almost always in "Plan" mode, I'm perfectly comfortable just talking for an extended bit of time then skimming the results of the STT and as long as it's not too bad I'll let it go, the LLM figures it out.

If I see it misunderstood, I just Esc to stop it, /clear, and try again (or /rewind if I'm deeper into Planning).