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A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human

https://swiftrocks.com/a-system-prompt-to-get-ai-to-stop-pretending-to-be-human
12•speckx•58m ago

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chadnewbry•57m ago
I'm sure some people are looking for exactly this!

I'm in the other camp where I like my AI feeling human. The more so the better. But great job shipping :)

ungreased0675•50m ago
Yes, this is awesome.

Now if I could stop AI from correcting me: “I think you’re actually using Java 25, even though you said 21…

rowanseymour•34m ago
I might try this but I've gotten so accustomed to talking to agents as I would a human - I worry that if I get accustomed to speaking coldly and directly to agents I'll find myself talking like that to people.
oggreen•21m ago
Do you have a prompt that can stop it from saying, "I'd push back on this"... or maybe with this it will now say "The algorithm pushes back on this"..

Seriously however, I think this may also help with the natural urge to treat the model as if it is a human. I have to purposefully almost detach and realize that Claude is not my friend, and I'm not quite smart enough to realize how dangerous that could be.

vikramkr•20m ago
Honestly the models are rled so hard on specific synthetic datasets and specific behaviors/personalities that I would be concerned that trying to change its behavior like this would hurt output quality. It's a tool, I don't care what garbage it generates or what it sounds like as long as it can do what I need it to do, and I don't get what I'm going to gain by having it burn reasoning tokens on word smithing it's responses to not "sound human" instead of on writing tests and reviewing code

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