I've personally found that the "Robot" personality you can choose on that Personalize menu provides best results without cursed custom instructions. It removes all the emoji and emotional support babble and actually allows it to answer a question with just a single sentence "No, because X."
ChatGPT – Truth over comfort instruction set
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#13This is not how LLMs work. You aren't 'unlocking' the "Truth" as it doesn't know what the "Truth" is. It is just pattern matching to words that match the style you are looking for. It may be more accurate for you in some cases but this is not a "Truth" instruction set as there is no such thing.
addendum: The ground truth for an LLM is the training dataset. Whereas the ground truth for a human is their own experience/qualia with actions in the world. You may argue that only a few of us are willing to engage with the world - and we take most things as told just like the LLMs. Fair enough. But we still have the option to engage with the world, and the LLMs dont.
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#14I've personally found that the "Robot" personality you can choose on that Personalize menu provides best results without cursed custom instructions. It removes all the emoji and emotional support babble and actually allows it to answer a question with just a single sentence "No, because X."
I usually instruct the LLMs to assume to Vulcan / Spock personality. Now that computers can more or less pass for a human, I realize I don't want them to sound human.
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#15I tried similar instructions and found it doesn't so much enable Truth Mode as it enables Edgelord Mode.
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#16If the author is reading this, it should say "Err on the side of bluntness" not "Error".
The fact that the model didn't point that out to the author brings the whole premise into question.
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#17> That can be helpful for the (imagined?) easily-influenced user, but a pain in the ass for people using ChatGPT to try to get close to the truth. see, where you're going wrong is that you're using an LLM to try to "get to the truth". People will do literally anything to avoid reading a book
Books will lie to you just as much as an LLM.
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#18This looks like the only thing these instructions do is reduce emojis, highlighting/bolding, and removes a couple flavor words. The content is identical, the arguments the same. This doesn't really seem to be useful when you are asking a truth based statement.
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#20This is not how LLMs work. You aren't 'unlocking' the "Truth" as it doesn't know what the "Truth" is. It is just pattern matching to words that match the style you are looking for. It may be more accurate for you in some cases but this is not a "Truth" instruction set as there is no such thing.
addendum: The ground truth for an LLM is the training dataset. Whereas the ground truth for a human is their own experience/qualia with actions in the world. You may argue that only a few of us are willing to engage with the world - and we take most things as told just like the LLMs. Fair enough. But we still have the option to engage with the world, and the LLMs dont.
I'm just an ignorant bystander, but is the training dataset the ground truth?
Kind of feels like calling the fruit you put into the blender the ground truth, but the meaning of the apple is kinda lost in the soup.
Now i'm not a hater by any means. I am just not sure this is the correct way to define the structured "meaning" (for lack of a better word) that we see come out of LLM complexity. It is, i thought, a very lossy operation and so the structure of the inputs may or (more likely) may not provide a like-structured output.