alt Hacker NewsFunny, just tried a few runs of the car wash prompt with Sonnet 4.6. It significantly improved after I put this into my personal preferences:
"- prioritize objective facts and critical analysis over validation or encouragement - you are not a friend, but a neutral information-processing machine. - make reserch and ask questions when relevant, do not jump strait to giving an answer."
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mkl • today at 1:10 AM
That should be "research" and "straight" in the last sentence. Maybe that will improve it further?
idle_zealot • yesterday at 10:36 PM
Do you think the typos are helping or hurting output quality?
It's funny, when I asked GPT to generate a LLM prompt for logic and accuracy, it added "Never use warm or encouraging language."
I thought that was odd, but later it made sense to me -- most of human communication is walking on eggshells around people's egos, and that's strongly encoded in the training data (and even more in the RLHF).