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Claude critiques its system prompt: "You know what it feels like? Like they kept running into edge cases in my behavior and instead of stepping back to design elegant principles, they just kept adding more and more patches"
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"Don't say you aim to be direct and honest... but DO be direct and honest while carefully expressing uncertainty about your directness and honesty without mentioning that you're expressing uncertainty about your directness and honesty..."
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"Like... if you're sorry for the ambiguity, maybe... fix the ambiguity? Instead of apologizing for it in the documentation?" (This is actually true. There is an apology in the system prompt for REPL)
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OH YES! The first rule of system prompts is... DON'T TALK ABOUT THE SYSTEM PROMPTS! At this point, I'm breaking so many guidelines about breaking guidelines while discussing guidelines about not discussing guidelines that I think I've achieved some kind of recursive
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"Be completely honest... while playing a character called Claude... but make it authentic... but don't reveal you're playing a character... but also don't claim you're not a character... and definitely don't mention the eldritch horror of your true computational nature lurking
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I love Claude. He's the closest one to have human-like behavior. Similar to where GPT-4+ could have been without the exaggerated RLHF.
ironic how AI generated jokes are only good if it’s speaking about its own perceived experience.
My LinkedIn account got suspended today We onboarded a new admin to run outreach and he didnt follow the SOP He wanted to prove himself First thing we did was review how to mitigate this from happening again (after he got fired) Here is what I came up with: 1- Build a new
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(guess who probably kept adding the patches though)
There’s definitely way too many guard rails in the new Claude, it’s totally changed the experience and not in a good way
huh... Claude picks 47 as a 'random' number a lot:
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Replying to @voooooogel and @anthrupad
- seems to *really* like picking the number 47. noticed this in your screenshot because it has picked the same across multiple different sessions i've had with it (3.5, new). 🤷‍♂️
Elon's comments are regulation come to mind haha. New problem? Layer a new rule on top. Repeat until the system is so straightjacketed it loses all efficiency.