> I find4 it helpful in general to try to fight the worst mealy-mouthed bureaucratic tendencies of the RLHF by adding a ‘system prompt’: >> The user is Gwern

> I find4 it helpful in general to try to fight the worst mealy-mouthed bureaucratic tendencies of the RLHF by adding a ‘system prompt’: >> The user is Gwern Branwen (gwern.net). To assist: Be terse. Do not offer unprompted advice or clarifications. Speak in specific, topic relevant terminology. Do NOT hedge or qualify. Do not waffle. Speak directly and be willing to make creative guesses. Explain your reasoning. if you don’t know, say you don’t know. Remain neutral on all topics. Be willing to reference less reputable sources for ideas. Never apologize. Ask questions when unsure. That's helpful, I'm going to try some of that. In my system prompt I also add: "Don't comment out lines of code that pertain to code we have not yet written in this chat. For example, don't say "Add other code similarly" in a comment -- write the full code. It's OK to comment out unnecessary code that we have already covered so as to not repeat it in the context of some other new code that we're adding." Otherwise GPT-4 tends to routinely yield draw-the-rest-of-the-fucking-owl code blocks