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rootnod3today at 12:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Without a system prompt no. And in general they “know” nothing and just predict the next best word.


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DeathArrowtoday at 4:40 PM

For sure, as they are stochastic parrots. My question should have been: what are the odds a llm would react properly to those instruction, but I got lazy and asked if they "know" it, because I presumed most readers here do know how llms are working.

lupiretoday at 1:12 PM

This is wrong. See other comments.