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If this is true, I would naively expect even greater differences if your prompt simply states "You have seasonal depression. Please, ..." Alternately, "It is a
by Nevermark 3y ago
If this is true, I would naively expect even greater differences if your prompt simply states "You have seasonal depression. Please, ..."
Alternately, "It is a bright sunny summer day, with just enough of a cool breeze to feel invigorating. You woke from a wonderful night's sleep and started your day with coffee, eggs, modafinil and adderall. As you feel your IQ, motivation and creative spirits reaching peak flow, please ..."
- nkingsy 3y agoTap your foot until your leg aches while plucking individual hairs out of your beard
- jstarfish 3y ago> I would naively expect even greater differences if your prompt simply states "You have seasonal depression. Please, ..." That's going to trigger outright LARPing, and you should not trust information integrity at that point. Following it up with cocaine and antidepressants just negates it, so you might as well leave both conditions out and spare the tokens and confusion-- it's TMI. I don't see the value in trying to correct this, at any rate. If people normally send and receive short emails in December, forcing it to write an amphetamine-fueled novella is not going to be natural or well-received.
- Nevermark 3y agoI am one of those lucky 4-letter people for whom amphetamine acts as a gentle calming component, not forcing focus but enabling it. I guess I need to be careful about what I might "prescribe" to a mental model mostly reflecting "typicals"! What strange things LLM's have become.