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I've tried variations of this. I find it will often cause it to include cringey bullshit phrases like: "Here's your brutally honest answer–just the hard truth,
by tallytarik 1y ago
I've tried variations of this. I find it will often cause it to include cringey bullshit phrases like:
"Here's your brutally honest answer–just the hard truth, no fluff: [...]"
I don't know whether that's better or worse than the fake flattery.
- BrawnyBadger53 1y agoSimilar experience, feels very ironic
- dcre 1y agoCurious whether you find this on the best models available. I find that Sonnet 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro are much better at following the spirit of my system prompt rather than the letter. I do not use OpenAI models regularly, so I’m not sure about them.
- danielscrubs 1y agoThat is not the spirit nor the letter though.
- dcre 1y agoThat is a good point. I guess the reason that distinction came to mind is that what’s happening here is the LLM trying to manifest its obedience in letter (i.e., by saying it).
- arrowsmith 1y agoYou need a system prompt to get that behaviour? I find ChatGPT does it constantly as its default setting: "Let's be blunt, I'm not gonna sugarcoat this. Getting straight to the hard truth, here's what you could cook for dinner tonight. Just the raw facts!" It's so annoying it makes me use other LLMs.
- cruffle_duffle 1y agoIts response is still flattery, just packaged in a different form. Patronizing, actually.