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Today I updated my Claude user preferences to tell it to stop saying "honestly" (and related expressions). The straw that broke the camel's back was "To be totally straight with you".

Seems to have had no effect. It said "honestly" again within 2 minutes.

Yeah, I had to laugh when I saw that. I haven't used it recently - is it possible that it's a recent addition to deal with the problem and it has improved since then?

If it's still doing it, I can only imagine how bad it had to be before they added the prompt...

I’ve noticed that too, but in the Claude Code context, where the system prompt may differ (I don’t think they disclose that one).

I haven’t seen it when using the app lately.

I have a bunch of ttsr rules on my omp for banned vocabulary. Gate and load bearing recently made it into this list