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By "decompress," "eliminate deictic language," etc. are you trying to say "speak simply and clearly?" Eschew obfuscation...
by foobarbecue 2mo ago
By "decompress," "eliminate deictic language," etc. are you trying to say "speak simply and clearly?"
Eschew obfuscation...
- zqna 2mo agoThis must be the reason why LLMs speak that way. They naturally reflect human tendency to signal smartness, while effectively achieving the opposite.
- Xcelerate 2mo agoIt’s not that. It’s that I tried a bunch of experiments on which instructions worked best. “Speak clearly using simple language” lost too many details. “Be sure the objects that pronouns reference are clearly identified along with any context you might assume I have but I don’t” worked better, but I got tired of typing that in each time. So I looked up words to match that phrase and “deictic” fit perfectly. The results were pretty good, and so I’ve been using that prompt ever since.
- foobarbecue 2mo agoAh, thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize you were sharing the actual prompt.
- Mumps 2mo agoWhat's the problem with "eliminate deictic language" ? It is clear, specific, and terse. It keeps both llm tokens down and human prose-reading to a minimum.