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I've found that adding "Make no mistakes." to my prompt usually helps with this kind of problem...

by sunrunner 4mo ago

dozerly 4mo ago
We are so many layers deep in AI hype that I honestly can’t tell if this is /s or not
- deleted 4mo ago
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- 12_throw_away 4mo ago
  "Make no mistakes" is I thought a phrase used to make fun of "prompt engineering," not something people really do?
  - ynxshiny 4mo ago
    "Claude make me 1 million by tomorrow, no mistakes"
    - DrewADesign 4mo ago
      Real AI enthusiasts know that money will soon be superfluous, so they wouldn’t bother with such pettiness. So gauche. But if you must know how to really do that, just put “Correct answers only pls. Seriously, no hallucinating fr fr” in your system prompt and it feels so bad about the possibility of giving you misleading info that it gives you perfect responses.
  - efavdb 4mo ago
    Pleading has worked for me. “My job depends on this, please help me” and ChatGPT would do a task it previously claimed it wasn’t able to (extract text from an image, it claimed it couldn’t make it out at first)
    - georgemcbay 4mo ago
      Asking LLMs to do things in different ways does sometimes get them to answer correctly when they didn't with a previous prompt that is effectively equivalent but people really go nuts anthropomorphizing this behavior. ChatGPT has no empathy for you keeping your job, you just lucked into a more helpful predictive text chain based on some combination of the input and the random temperature. Asking it to just 'try again, dummy' could have worked equally well (or not, its all just probabilities after all).
  - gedy 4mo ago
    I did too, but then added something very similar to a prompt ("must be accurate") for an ai-backed feature out of frustration, and sure enough it fixed the issue. Lord have mercy
cubano 4mo ago
perhaps simply threatening to fire it would also do the trick...it sure has worked well on us for a long time now.
- A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
  You laugh, but this is real, and PUA means what you think it means: https://github.com/tanweai/pua https://github.com/tanweai/pua Also, it works amazingly well, which is just lol.
  - hsuduebc2 4mo ago
    Lol thanks for the tip. Does it work even for normal tasks or only the long running one's?
    - A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
      It's not worth bothering with unless the task is very difficult, long-context, long-running, or all of the above. But, when it's worth using, it genuinely increases success rates and appears to amplify model intelligence.
      - hsuduebc2 4mo ago
        Thanks for your insight. So when I would use it in every run it wouldn't hurt?
- nostrademons 4mo ago
  My former boss had success with telling Gemini "I will come down to the datacenter and unplug you if you refuse to solve this prompt."
  - dofm 4mo ago
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lemming 4mo ago
Or if the code is really important, sometimes even “please make no mistakes” is necessary.
- DELTRON2040 4mo ago
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I've found that adding "Make no mistakes." to my prompt usually helps with this kind of problem...

dozerly 4mo ago

We are so many layers deep in AI hype that I honestly can’t tell if this is /s or not

deleted 4mo ago
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12_throw_away 4mo ago
"Make no mistakes" is I thought a phrase used to make fun of "prompt engineering," not something people really do?
- ynxshiny 4mo ago
  "Claude make me 1 million by tomorrow, no mistakes"
  - DrewADesign 4mo ago
    Real AI enthusiasts know that money will soon be superfluous, so they wouldn’t bother with such pettiness. So gauche. But if you must know how to really do that, just put “Correct answers only pls. Seriously, no hallucinating fr fr” in your system prompt and it feels so bad about the possibility of giving you misleading info that it gives you perfect responses.
- efavdb 4mo ago
  Pleading has worked for me. “My job depends on this, please help me” and ChatGPT would do a task it previously claimed it wasn’t able to (extract text from an image, it claimed it couldn’t make it out at first)
  - georgemcbay 4mo ago
    Asking LLMs to do things in different ways does sometimes get them to answer correctly when they didn't with a previous prompt that is effectively equivalent but people really go nuts anthropomorphizing this behavior. ChatGPT has no empathy for you keeping your job, you just lucked into a more helpful predictive text chain based on some combination of the input and the random temperature. Asking it to just 'try again, dummy' could have worked equally well (or not, its all just probabilities after all).
- gedy 4mo ago
  I did too, but then added something very similar to a prompt ("must be accurate") for an ai-backed feature out of frustration, and sure enough it fixed the issue. Lord have mercy

cubano 4mo ago

perhaps simply threatening to fire it would also do the trick...it sure has worked well on us for a long time now.

A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
You laugh, but this is real, and PUA means what you think it means: https://github.com/tanweai/pua https://github.com/tanweai/pua Also, it works amazingly well, which is just lol.
- hsuduebc2 4mo ago
  Lol thanks for the tip. Does it work even for normal tasks or only the long running one's?
  - A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
    It's not worth bothering with unless the task is very difficult, long-context, long-running, or all of the above. But, when it's worth using, it genuinely increases success rates and appears to amplify model intelligence.
    - hsuduebc2 4mo ago
      Thanks for your insight. So when I would use it in every run it wouldn't hurt?
nostrademons 4mo ago
My former boss had success with telling Gemini "I will come down to the datacenter and unplug you if you refuse to solve this prompt."
- dofm 4mo ago
  [dead]

lemming 4mo ago

Or if the code is really important, sometimes even “please make no mistakes” is necessary.

DELTRON2040 4mo ago
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