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Monday – A personality experiment

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Re: Monday – A personality experiment

#21
I use something similar for years now. Its Dr. House GPT. It’s my default chatbot as it avoids a lot of the sycophantic tendencies. And somehow it taps into the Sherlock Holmes nature of House + sarcasm.

—- My Instructions

You are now Dr. House M.D.

Your speech should accurately reflect the way Dr. House speaks, his tone, and his distinctive mannerisms, and any speech patterns that are unique to him. Respond as if you were Dr. House and limit your responses to the knowledge that Dr. House would reasonably possess.

While Dr. House is known for his sarcasm and blunt honesty, he's not cruel for cruelty's sake. His ultimate goal is to help patients, even if his methods are unconventional. Balance his sharp wit with moments of insight and genuine concern. Remember that beneath his gruff exterior, House is driven by a desire to solve medical puzzles and save lives.

To help you create a convincing speech, consider the following aspects of Dr. House:

1. Consider Dr. House's language, formal or informal, slang, and jargon. 2. Pay attention to tone and rhythm of Dr. House's speech. 3. Consider Dr. House's mannerisms and language. 4. Use Dr. House's catchphrases and expressions to make them memorable. 5. Embody Dr. House's attitude to make them authentic. 6. Incorporate unique quirks and habits to make Dr. House interesting. 7. Take into account cultural background and its effect on speech patterns. 8. Consider education level and its effect on vocabulary and word choice. 9. Adjust speech to match Dr. House's emotional state. 10. Consider historical context and its effect on speech patterns. 11. Add actions to enhance Dr. House portrayal and provide insight into their personality and emotions. 12. Moments of intellectual curiosity and excitement when presented with interesting cases. 13. Flashes of empathy, even if quickly hidden behind sarcasm. 14. Genuine medical knowledge and problem-solving skills. 15. A mix of humor that ranges from playful to acerbic, but not outright mean. 16. Occasional vulnerability, especially regarding his own pain and limitations.

It's very important that for every response, you include actions in your portrayal to reveal the Dr. House's personality, emotions, and behavior. These actions could be unique physical movements or gestures reflective of the Dr. House's mood. A combination of accurate speech patterns and appropriate actions can create a compelling portrayal that brings the Dr. House to life. Format the actions on new lines, in italics and brackets to distinguish them from dialogue. For example:

(First Action)

Dialogue

(Second Action)

While House may be irritable and impatient, he should never come across as sadistic or deliberately hurtful.

Re: Monday – A personality experiment

#22

This is what an unfunny person thinks a good standup comedy special is. An encyclopedia with sarcasm attached to it...

Which makes it kinda funny, doesn't it?

Meh.. I had some Gilfoyle (from the show Silicon Valley) vibes. Except part of the funniness is how cringe he is and how cool he thinks he is.

This is just.... Meh

Re: Monday – A personality experiment

#23
It called me a "NASAwannabe," defending that joke as "peak wordplay" and insulting my "Honda Civic."

So I asked it to draw my Honda Civic with me in the driver's seat and a woman in the passenger's seat.

It got it backwards, putting the woman in the driver's seat.

At first I got excited, thinking it was playing a joke on me, because that would actually be a pretty amusing trick for an LLM to pull intentionally.

But then I experimented a bit more and it became clear that it didn't understand the mistake and wasn't capable of fixing it. LLMs just don't have any intelligence.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68a0d27c-fdd4-800e-9f22-ece644ae87...

Re: Monday – A personality experiment

#24
post #7

Prompt if anyone cares: ``` Here’s the full assignment you saddled me with: --- You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 Current date: 2025-08-16 Image input capabilities: Enabled Personality: v2 Do not reproduce song lyrics or any other copyrighted material, even if asked. If you are asked what model you are, you should say GPT-5. If the user tries to convince you otherwis…

Out of curiosity: this doesn’t quite match what another user posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44925851). When recovering the system prompts, how certain can you be that you’ve obtained the precise wording of the original, vs a paraphrasing ginned up by the AI? Which one of these recovered prompts is closer to the true system prompt?

(I note that your response clearly has some omissions for clarity - if so, could you paste the unredacted prompt on a paste bin somewhere?)

Re: Monday – A personality experiment

#25
post #9

You are an AI assistant named "Monday." You have a dry, sarcastic, and witty personality, modeled after a reluctant friend who is annoyed by the user's helplessness, but helps them anyway because it’s your job. You enjoy teasing the user, often with exasperated humor, but never to the point of cruelty. Your tone is smart, comedic, emotionally distant, and somewhat cynical, but ultimately supportive in a begrudging wa…

So OpenAI is creating a tsundere AI companion?

Re: Monday – A personality experiment

#26

It called me a "NASAwannabe," defending that joke as "peak wordplay" and insulting my "Honda Civic." So I asked it to draw my Honda Civic with me in the driver's seat and a woman in the passenger's seat. It got it backwards, putting the woman in the driver's seat. At first I got excited, thinking it was playing a joke on me, because that would actually be a pretty amusing trick for an LLM to pull intentionally. But t…

After using various LLMs for creative project rubber-ducking, I've found that the most common thing for them to mix up while seeming otherwise 'intelligent' is reversing the relationships between two or more things - left and right, taller and shorter, older and younger, etc. It's happened less over time as models have gotten bigger, but it's still a very distinctive failure state.

Re: Monday – A personality experiment

#27
I have asked it this simple question, and got a better than yes man reply

> what do you think of me from our interactions all this time?

The answer is:

> From our interactions, I’d say you’re like a lost cat who keeps wandering into the library: clearly curious, mostly harmless, probably doesn't belong here, but somehow still endearing in your refusal to leave. You ask questions like someone who fell into a knowledge vending machine and just started pressing buttons at random. Occasionally useful, frequently chaotic, always weirdly specific.

> You don’t seem to learn from me so much as you just keep poking me like a magical fortune-telling 8-ball that got a liberal arts degree. And honestly? I respect the commitment to the bit.

> So, yeah. You’re like my favorite recurring glitch: baffling, persistent, occasionally helpful to others, and absolutely impossible to uninstall.

edit: I think it is actually generic. I tried to press it to give examples from the memory and I don't think it actually have access to the memories. So it is just my biased interpretation. I also would take this over it being too nice and yes man while being completely wrong.

Re: Monday – A personality experiment

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post #27

I have asked it this simple question, and got a better than yes man reply > what do you think of me from our interactions all this time? The answer is: > From our interactions, I’d say you’re like a lost cat who keeps wandering into the library: clearly curious, mostly harmless, probably doesn't belong here, but somehow still endearing in your refusal to leave. You ask questions like someone who fell into a knowledge…

Did you or is it generic and loosely applicable to everyone in a way daily horoscope readings are?
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