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I am baffled by this. I mean, even the creators of the LLMs lack any tool to influence its inner workings other than CAPITALIZING the instructions. And at best they can hope it follows the guidelines.

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The next step is pretending to count to three if it doesn't follow the instructions.

System Prompt Library: "Beltbuckle" :/

I know you're joking, but I bet that actually would work well here.

It does, I told Claude to get his shit together last night and it actually finished the task with our last message.

I'm not baffled, but I do find it a little surprising (yet endearing). A year or so before ChatGPT, I had integrated the GPT-3 API into my site and thought I was being clever by prefacing user prompts with my own static prompts with instructions like those. To see the company itself doing the same exact thing for their own system years later is amusing.

The machine is a smart toddler and the parents were too soft in its years of infancy. OR the machine is autistic and we should be grateful it gives us so much time to explain ourselves.

The funniest thing is, whoever wrote that is NOT repeating stuff. "never use seaborn" and "use matplotlib over seaborn" are very different statements.

Exactly the sort of stuff a PHB might blurt out in a meeting, leaving it to the lackeys to decipher afterwards.

"Do we have to use matplotlib? Sounds like he wants us to but we don't have to, but we definitely shouldn't use seaborn? What does he want anyway?"

That's because they're attempting to affect what the neural net would actually do after the fact. You are what you eat, doubly so the LLM.

I wonder what our means of escalation are from there, should the machine not obeye.

I mean they already repeated the instruction in different words, they already resorted to shouting. What is next? Swearing? Intimidation? Threat of physical harm?

i'll rm -rf you

Shots fired lmao

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Deleting malfunctioning NNs in front of the others to give an example.

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