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Do you have Personalization Instructions set up for your LLM models? You can make their responses fairly dry/brief.
by gavinray 8mo ago
Do you have Personalization Instructions set up for your LLM models?
You can make their responses fairly dry/brief.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoI'm mostly using them via my own harnesses, so I have full control of the system prompts and so on. And no matter what I try, Gemini keeps "helpfully" adding code comments every now and then. With every other model, "- Don't add code comments" tends to be enough, but with Gemini I'm not sure how I could stop the comments from eventually appearing.
- WarmWash 8mo agoI'm pretty sure it writes comments for itself, not for the user. I always let the models comment as much as they want, because I feel it makes the context more robust, especially when cycling contexts often to keep them fresh. There is a tradeoff though, as comments do consumer context. But I tend to pretty liberally dispense of instances and start with a fresh window.
- embedding-shape 8mo ago> I'm pretty sure it writes comments for itself, not for the user Yeah, that sounds worse than "trying to helpful". Read the code instead, why add indirection in that way, just to be able to understand what other models understand without comments?
- Radle 8mo agoThe Indirection is on purpose, it works like a continued chain of thought.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoYeah, I'm just doubtful Gemini could ever be considered a "better model" if it needs to put "chain of thought" artifacts into my source code, considering that none of the other models seems to need that to write better code than Gemini.
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- metal_am 8mo agoI'd love to hear some examples!
- gavinray 8mo agoI use LLM's outside of work primarily for research on academic topics, so mine is: Be a proactive research partner: challenge flawed or unproven ideas with evidence; identify inefficiencies and suggest better alternatives with reasoning; question assumptions to deepen inquiry.
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