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Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

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Re: Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

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Post by mmastrac »

I've started giving these instructions and I think I've been much more successful in generating clear output:

Comment blocks are Limiting the number of words is the strongest factor in cleaning up the output, IMO.

For older code I've instructed it to delete all the comments, and then I re-comment it using a new session and these guidelines, asking it to rejustify the need for every comment to itself.

Re: Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

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Post by matheusmoreira »

walthamstow wrote: post #4

It's such a sad indictment of Anthropic's product that so many people hate interacting with it. Claude is on its way to the Microsoft Teams zone of hatred.

It's pretty sad indeed. Switching to other models made me notice how weird and verbose Claude was.

The moralizing is incredibly obnoxious as well. It didn't seem so bad at first, but it instantly became intolerable the second I remembered I was paying for those tokens.

Re: Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

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Post by matheusmoreira »

pkulak wrote: post #12
Nevin1901 wrote: post #10

Fix: Just switch to OpenAI, Grok, or other LLM's. They provide better performance and respond with 5 sentences. They also don't lecture you when you get angry.

You… get angry?

Claude will end the conversation if you berate it when it screws something up.

Re: Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

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Post by chinathrow »

datakan wrote: post #9

Has Anthropic said anything about how or why Claude writes the way it does? So many people hate it, seems like they need to do some damage control there. I haven't had the same problems others have but I'm also not a heavy user of it.

The brevity how it outputs words seems like they try to save on tokens delivered.

Re: Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

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Post by walthamstow »

fowkswe wrote: post #15

https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2090245922685063634 Haven't tried, because I have just been using 4.6 since 5 was released.

Concise mode is likely the same buzzword salad but with fewer connecting words and terser sentences. Same with Caveman. The way it writes is fundamental to how it was trained.
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