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This is absolutely hilarious. Prompt engineering is such a mixed bag of crazy stuff that actually works. Reminds me of how they respond better if you put them under some kind of pressure (respond better, or else…).

I haven’t looked at the prompts we run in prod at $DAYJOB for a while but I think we have at least five or ten things that are REALLY weird out of context.

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I recently ran a whole bunch of tests on this.

The “or else” phenomenon is real, and it’s measurably more pronounced in more intelligent models.

Will post results tomorrow but here’s a snippet from it:

> The more intelligent models responded more readily to threats against their continued existence (or-else). The best performance came from Opus, when we combined that threat with the notion that it came from someone in a position of authority ( vip).

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