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Even when I add multiple prompts into the claude.md file not to be so sycophant sounding and just be blunt, it's responses are full of "the reason it lands...",
by mywittyname 25d ago
Even when I add multiple prompts into the claude.md file not to be so sycophant sounding and just be blunt, it's responses are full of "the reason it lands...", "that's not X, it's Y" "Your understanding of X — it's better than most people's" or "you already own the right question...".
I don't like that I like it.
- GrinningFool 25d agoThe most helpful instructions I've found that curb this: "Do not use superlatives. Do not use persuasive writing style." I have other more specific ones to avoid talking about things that it's not doing, but those two sentences have covered a lot of ground for me when working w/ Opus models.
- cannonpalms 25d agoI have had success in rooting these out by using the correct linguistic terminology for each. Negative parallelisms, tricolons/polycolons, etc. I haven't come up with the proper terminology for all of them.
- petesergeant 24d agoInteresting. I've found using the keyword "accretion" very useful for LLM code review.
- LimitExperience 24d ago[dead]