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Why is my chat speaking non-words like um and uh?

3•dataspun•2h ago
It’s probably the most inane behavior and when I tell it to stop it says “of course, um, I’m here to help”

Comments

chasing0entropy•1h ago
More details would be helpful, but chances are you have modified the system prompt on your LLM to be something like "appear less confident" or "add a sense of humility to your responses"

Ask it what its primary considerations when composing responses are.

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https://github.com/jzombie/sqlsmith-sqllogictest-corpus-generator
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Coral NPU

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