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LPisGoodyesterday at 7:16 PM4 repliesview on HN

System prompts are more like suggestions than hard constraints.


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verdvermyesterday at 7:54 PM

I don't understand why they don't look for large substring matches for the system prompt before returning the response. Trivial calculation compared to a system prompt instruction asking the model not to do it

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mooredsyesterday at 7:39 PM

s/system/all llm/

That's the joy and pain.

dborehamyesterday at 8:06 PM

The Pirate Code.

_davide_yesterday at 7:58 PM

i beg to differ, in an ideal world a system possibly is a binding law and high end models are starting to be really aligned to the exact system prompt. The instructions must be simple to follow, if you start doing complex rules it'll call apart, but I'll usually follow the stringer interpretation.

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