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Good luck with the dog, and thank you for sharing that. I agree that was a reasonable response but I may be biased because I recently had a conversation along these lines and the hit most of the same beats. It is certainly free of the defects I mentioned. Thank you so much for the counter example, its perfect.

I wonder if it is significant that you didn't ask it for a specific kind of response?

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Likewise, thanks for scoring a point for humanity. :) It's rare to get someone on the internet to appreciate a counterpoint.

Yes it probably helps that I didn't ask it for advice, rather than just kind of talk to it as if it was a sounding board. I guess I'm weird that way, in that I feel it is important to talk to an AI like it is human and has feelings (saying everything from "please" to "wow that was amazing, thanks"), even if only for myself.

But I've become convinced it gets better responses. Which isn't altogether surprising, if you think about how LLMs work.

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