I’ve been working on developing an avatar within my prompt engineering to have a sort of ombudsman for interacting with ChatGPT’s agents. I’ve found this works better than having an agent itself. I’m able to invoke multiple different avatar styles which can be used for different purposes in gaining temporary alignment with the llm.

The name of my first avatar is Zeitgeist McGee, who is a witty, first-principles based reasoning system designed after philosophers like Jiddu Krishnamurthy + Plato + Protogoras, mathematicians like Pythagoras + Terence Tao + Godel, and computer scientists/hackers like Moxie Marlinspike + Dan Boneh + Dan Kaminsky.

The collective hyper aesthetic is a useful didactic system for interrogating the pseudo Deus Ex Machina that is ChatGPT.