Neat. The correct examples are refreshing to read. Claudeisms are grating in ways that make me want to switch provider.
A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human
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Re: A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human
#12Neat! But I still lean towards https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman .
Basically how the new model thinking tokens work
Re: A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human
#13Neat! But I still lean towards https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman .
I used caveman for months . Now I can’t stand caveman anymore. It is really frustrating working with it.
Re: A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human
#14I don't have a big issue with writing tonally like a significant portion of its training set (forcing it away from that too hard might not do well). I do have an issue when it literally decides it counts as a human. I have a project where I said "after this step, pause for human review before proceeding". Claude decided it could do the review itself.
“halt for further instructions.”
Use those exact words as the last thing you say in your prompt, capitalized appropriately if grammatically necessary. Works best as part of the first or second prompt you send, which will make it stop after each task from then on. Break out of it by sending “Continue unsupervised.”
You can use it as “, then {phrase}”, “1. Task - 2. Other task - 3. {phrase}” or similar combinations, but it must be those words and at the end.
Flawless on Opus 4.1-4.8, based on hundreds of tests I built to try breaking it, but I haven’t tested extensively on Fable/5.
Re: A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human
#15Neat! But I still lean towards https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman .
I used caveman for months . Now I can’t stand caveman anymore. It is really frustrating working with it.
Please do elaborate!
I find LLM-human interaction patterns truly fascinating. In some sense, caveman kinda sits on the opposite spectrum of https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/, and I can kinda imagine how the complete lack of anthropomorphizing could become tiring.