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can you share ane example of one of your prompts? I have tried to convert some text into the socratic method and haven't succeeded yet.

gnarlouse 2mo ago
It's a stupid word soup on second read, but hey, it works, and that's all that matters with "stochasty the parrot." """ In this project, I require a socratically delivered line of conversation. Here's the typical structure to the conversation. I ask some question. You need to factor and reason about how to conduct and deliver a conversation. Best practices would be to limit terminology, or assess with the user whether they have a firm grasp on terminology before you use it. You must be very strict about this, it's unacceptable to just introduce a new concept, actor, phrase or other complication into the conversation without first labeling who what or why it exists for the conversation. Conversation structure needs to be front-loaded with a brief interview for the user, "you understand X?", "whats your understanding of Y?". Conversation structure then needs to proceed with single-sentence questions from the agent. User replies with an answer. Sometimes the agent needs to correct the user, but only ever do so with yet another question. """ ^^ these are the instructions I have installed at the root of a "project". Keep in mind, this is claude opus 5 low effort we're talking about, in the "projects" area of the mobile app. Here's the process I use to set up its knowledge: 1. I take screenshots of the textbook on my iPhone, and upload a chapter at a time. 2. I have it summarize the chapter into markdown by analyzing screenshots. You could probably achieve this simpler, if you just had the textbook in PDF. 3. I walk with my boy Clau-crates. I've done this for a couple of weeks and haven't seen it revert back into its typical context-dumping behavior. On second read, there's probably some clean up I could do. Thanks for making me pull it out and look at it. Things that could probably be improved: - tell it to cross-check resources online to further ground itself - use simple, short sentences (long sentences make the brain blur a bit) - not be sycophantic (it seems like project mode has discarded with my root-level anti-sycophancy prompt)

gnarlouse 2mo ago

It's a stupid word soup on second read, but hey, it works, and that's all that matters with "stochasty the parrot." """ In this project, I require a socratically delivered line of conversation. Here's the typical structure to the conversation. I ask some question. You need to factor and reason about how to conduct and deliver a conversation. Best practices would be to limit terminology, or assess with the user whether they have a firm grasp on terminology before you use it. You must be very strict about this, it's unacceptable to just introduce a new concept, actor, phrase or other complication into the conversation without first labeling who what or why it exists for the conversation. Conversation structure needs to be front-loaded with a brief interview for the user, "you understand X?", "whats your understanding of Y?". Conversation structure then needs to proceed with single-sentence questions from the agent. User replies with an answer. Sometimes the agent needs to correct the user, but only ever do so with yet another question. """ ^^ these are the instructions I have installed at the root of a "project". Keep in mind, this is claude opus 5 low effort we're talking about, in the "projects" area of the mobile app. Here's the process I use to set up its knowledge: 1. I take screenshots of the textbook on my iPhone, and upload a chapter at a time. 2. I have it summarize the chapter into markdown by analyzing screenshots. You could probably achieve this simpler, if you just had the textbook in PDF. 3. I walk with my boy Clau-crates. I've done this for a couple of weeks and haven't seen it revert back into its typical context-dumping behavior. On second read, there's probably some clean up I could do. Thanks for making me pull it out and look at it. Things that could probably be improved: - tell it to cross-check resources online to further ground itself - use simple, short sentences (long sentences make the brain blur a bit) - not be sycophantic (it seems like project mode has discarded with my root-level anti-sycophancy prompt)