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This applies to so many AIs. I don't want a bubbly sycophant. I don't want a fake personality or an anime avatar. I just want a helpful assistant. I also don't
by bradley13 1y ago
This applies to so many AIs. I don't want a bubbly sycophant. I don't want a fake personality or an anime avatar. I just want a helpful assistant.
I also don't get wanting to talk to an AI. Unless you are alone, that's going to be irritating for everyone else around.
- scotty79 1y agoSure but different people have different preferences. Some people mourn replacement of GPT4 with 5 because 5 has way less of a bubbly personality.
- WesolyKubeczek 1y agoI, for one, say good riddance to it.
- arresin 1y agoBut it doesn’t say ima good boy anymore :(
- cubefox 1y agoThere is evidence from Reddit that particularly women used GPT-4o as their AI "boyfriend". I think that's unhealthy behavior and it is probably net positive that GPT-5 doesn't do that anymore.
- ivan_gammel 1y agoGPT-5 still does that as they will soon discover.
- cubefox 1y agoNo. They complained about GPT-5 because it did not act like their boyfriend anymore.
- scotty79 1y agoWhy is it unhealthy? If you just want a good word that you don't have in your life why should you bother another person if machine can do it?
- cubefox 1y agoBecause it's a mirage. People want to be loved, but GPT-4o doesn't love them. It only creates an optical illusion of love.
- 9rx 1y agoPeople want the feelings associated with love. They don't care how they get it. The advantage of "real" love, health wise, is that the other person acts as a moderator. When things start to get out of hand they will back away. Alternatives, like drugs, tend to spiral of out of control when an individual's self-control is the only limiting factor. GPT on the surface seems more like being on the drug end of the spectrum, ready to love bomb you until you can't take it anymore, but the above suggests that it will also back away, so perhaps its love is actually more like another person than it may originally seem.
- cubefox 1y ago> People want the feelings associated with love. They don't care how they get it. Most people want to be loved, not just believe they are. They don't want to be unknowingly deceived. For the same reason they don't want to be unknowingly cheated on. If someone tells them their partner is a cheater, or an unconscious android, they wouldn't be mad about the person who gives them this information, but about their partner. That's the classic argument against psychological hedonism. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine
- 9rx 1y ago> For the same reason they don't want to be unknowingly cheated on. That's the thing, though, there is nothing about being a cheater that equates to loss of love (or never having loved). In fact, it is telling that you shifted gears to the topic of deceit rather than love. It is true that feelings of love are often lost when one has been cheated on. So, yes, it is a fair point that for many those feelings of love aren't made available if one does not also have trust. There is a association there, so your gear change is understood. I expect you are absolutely right that if those aforementioned women dating GPT-4o found out that it wasn't an AI bot, but actually some guy typing away at a keyboard, they would lose their feelings even if the guy on the other side did actually love them! Look at how many people get creeped out when they find out that a person they are disinterested in loves them. Clearly being loved isn't what most people seek. They want to feel the feelings associated with love. All your comment tells, surprising nobody, is that the feelings of love are not like a tap you can simply turn on (well, maybe in the case of drugs). The feelings require a special environment where everything has to be just right, and trust is often a necessary part of that environment. Introduce deceit and so goes the feelings.
- catigula 1y agoGPT-5 still has a terrible personality. "Yeah -- some bullshit" still feels like trash as the presentation is of a friendly person rather than an unthinking machine, which it is. The false presentation of humanness is a huge problem.
- ted_bunny 1y agoI feel strongly about this. LLMs should not try to write like humans. Computer voices should sound robotic. And when we have actual androids walking around, they should stay on the far side of the uncanny valley. People are already anthropomorphizing them too much.
- Applejinx 1y agoIt can't, though. It's language. We don't have a body of work constituting robots talking to each other in words. Hardly fair to ask LLMs not to write like humans when humans constructed everything they're built on.
- andrewstuart 1y agoI want no personality at all. It’s software. It should have no personality. Imagine if Microsoft Word had a silly chirpy personality that kept asking you inane questions. Oh, wait ….
- gryn 1y agoKeep Clippy's name out of you mouth ! he's a good boy. /s
- uncircle 1y agoI want an AI modeled after short-tempered stereotypical Germans or Eastern Europeans, not copying the attitude of non-confrontational Californians that say “dude, that’s awesome!” a dozen times a day. And I mean that unironically.
- finaard 1y agoAs a German not working in Germany - I often get the feedback that the initial contact with me is rather off-putting, but over time people start appreciating my directness.
- j4coh 1y agoBless your heart.
- bluGill 1y agoWhile you are not alone, all evidence points to the vast majority of people preferring "yes men" as their advisors. Often to their eventual harm.
- threetonesun 1y agoOne would think that if AI was as good at coding as they tell us it is a style toggle would take all of five, ten minutes tops.
- rob74 1y agoOk, then I can write an LLM too - because the guys you mention, if you asked them to write your code for you, would just tell you to get lost (or a more strongly phrased variation thereof).
- anal_reactor 1y agoThe problem is, performing social interaction theatre is way more important than actually using logic to solve issues. Look at how many corporate jobs are 10% engineering and 90% kissing people's assess in order to maintain social cohesion and hierarchy. Sure, you say you want "short-tempered stereotypical Germans or Eastern Europeans" but guess what - most people say some variation of that, but when they actually see such behavior, they get upset. So we continue with the theatre. For reference, see how Linus Torvalds was criticized for trying to protect the world's most important open source project from weaponized stupidity at the cost of someone experiencing minor emotional damage.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI did as a test, Grok has "workspaces" and you can add a pre-prompt. So I made a Kamina (from Gurren Lagann) "worspace" so I could ask it silly questions and get back hyped up answers from "Kamina" it worked decently, my point is some tools out there let you "pre-prompt" based on your context. I believe Perplexity has this as well, they don't make it easy to find though.
- benrapscallion 1y agoWhere is this setting in Perplexity?
- giancarlostoro 1y agoThey call it spaces, so when you create a "Space" on Desktop at least, you look on the right hand corner for the three dots, next to the Share button, and click "Settings": > Give instructions to Perplexity to customize how answers are focused and structured. You type into that box, now every space you make can have a fully custom "pre-prompt" as I call it. I only just started using Perplexity, they really need to rework their UI a little bit.