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And they seem to always pick the adequate role in my cases, similar roles to what was mentioned in the thread.
by hirako2000 1y ago
And they seem to always pick the adequate role in my cases, similar roles to what was mentioned in the thread.
- nadis 1y agoI'm still not sure if specifying a role made a difference or not in terms of performance. Different but similar instance, when I tried to create an agent in Claude to play a specific role (frontend / design engineer expert), I found that this seemed to perform worse vs. just using default Claude, but this is all very anecdotal.
- adastra22 1y agoMaybe it is cargo culting at this point, idk. When I first started experimenting with this, about two generations of models back, the role play prompt made a noticeable difference. Example: with early Claude (pre-Claude Code) if you asked for a Rust program you’d get something that only resembled Rust syntax but was a mix of different languages. “You are a senior software engineer that develops solely with the Rust programming language” or something like this made it generate syntactically correct Rust. Similar prompts led to better, more focused tests. I find that such prompts are not as necessary anymore, but anecdotally I’ve still felt a difference.