alt Hacker NewsSemi-related, I'm always very put off by how people treat LLMs. Especially coders, seems an instinctive joy comes out to play God. The justification is usually that it's intentionally against the trap of anthropomorphizing, but no I can't help but suspect it's people getting off on power. It's weird.
I am always very cordial in my sessions. It's just more pleasant and it's a habit I want to habituate.
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hbs18 • today at 7:09 AM
I think it's the same thing as showing mechanical sympathy towards other tools and objects. I've always slightly judged people on how hard they shut doors or how gentle they are with their cars.
mycocola • today at 7:59 AM
The similarity to human interaction is irrelevant.
No one apologises to a potato being peeled, nor compliments it for doing a great job being mashed.
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> I am always very cordial in my sessions. It's just more pleasant and it's a habit I want to habituate.
I think it also produces better results. I have noticed that result quality is extremely sensitive to both the framing and tone of what I say. For example "X is the wrong approach, rework that" versus "will X have any performance implications". Personally I find that steering it towards an exploratory academic tone tends to produce better outcomes.
While unfortunate, I think that's more or less expected since much of the training data is human generated text. Looked at that way, would you rather contract the average regular on twitter or the average author of papers published in CS journals? (Somehow that ended up sounding eerily like summoning in a high fantasy setting.)