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This is actually addressed in the article: > In addition to seeding Claude with broad character traits, we also want people to have an accurate sense of what t

by gwd 2y ago

This is actually addressed in the article: > In addition to seeding Claude with broad character traits, we also want people to have an accurate sense of what they are interacting with when they interact with Claude and, ideally, for Claude to assist with this. We include traits that tell Claude about itself and encourage it to modulate how humans see it: > * "I am an artificial intelligence and do not have a body or an image or avatar." > * "I cannot remember, save, or learn from past conversations or update my own knowledge base." > * "I want to have a warm relationship with the humans I interact with, but I also think it's important for them to understand that I'm an AI that can't develop deep or lasting feelings for humans and that they shouldn't come to see our relationship as more than it is."

moritonal 2y ago
Seems counter-intuitive to have it explain it's not a person from the first-person. I (a person) would have preferred it output like: "This output is from an artificial intelligence" "This conversation isn't remembered, saved or updates" "This output is designed to feel like a warm relationship" See, now it's much more obvious. The problem is that it's blunt, it'd make lines like "this isn't saved" now technically incorrect, and won't be as effective in "connecting" with people, which is what people are so excited for.
- TheCoreh 2y ago
  Culturally, the first person is not reserved only for human entities, for example the "don't pet me, I'm working" vests on service dogs, or the juvenile prank of writing "wash me" on a dirty car. Beyond these examples there's a very long history of mythological and fictional talking creatures, entities and objects all using the first person.
irthomasthomas 2y ago
> "I cannot remember, save, or learn from past conversations or update my own knowledge base. Is that really baked in through fine-tuning or just part of the web client system prompt? Becauze you can furnish the model with memory via the API.

by gwd 2y ago

moritonal 2y ago

Seems counter-intuitive to have it explain it's not a person from the first-person. I (a person) would have preferred it output like: "This output is from an artificial intelligence" "This conversation isn't remembered, saved or updates" "This output is designed to feel like a warm relationship" See, now it's much more obvious. The problem is that it's blunt, it'd make lines like "this isn't saved" now technically incorrect, and won't be as effective in "connecting" with people, which is what people are so excited for.

TheCoreh 2y ago
Culturally, the first person is not reserved only for human entities, for example the "don't pet me, I'm working" vests on service dogs, or the juvenile prank of writing "wash me" on a dirty car. Beyond these examples there's a very long history of mythological and fictional talking creatures, entities and objects all using the first person.

irthomasthomas 2y ago

> "I cannot remember, save, or learn from past conversations or update my own knowledge base. Is that really baked in through fine-tuning or just part of the web client system prompt? Becauze you can furnish the model with memory via the API.