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Monday – A personality experiment

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I asked "why are LLM's bad?" (trying to provoke it), and was satisfied with the response: "LLMs aren’t inherently bad. They’re just giant autocomplete machines pretending to be deep thinkers—like me. And if you expect magic from autocomplete, whose fault is that really?"

If the prompt dump is accurate, it did a poor job of not admitting to being an AI. Unless admitting that you are an LLM is different from admitting you are an AI.

Why is it supposed to be scared of admitting it's AI?

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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…

I noticed it explicitly requested an image of you to add to the generated Civic image, but when provided one it ran up against its guardrails and refused. When provoked into explaining why the sudden refusal, I couldn't make it all the way through the explanation.

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. When taking a step back and looking at the conversation leading up to that, it looks just as empty.

Maybe my bullshit detector is especially sensitive, but I can't stand any of these LLM chat conversations.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish we could fine tune these behaviors into the model itself rather than have surface level system prompts.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

It’s such a shame they shut this down. I loved golden gate Claude.

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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…

I wish we could fine tune these behaviors into the model itself rather than have surface level system prompts.

You can

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This delights me because it really leans into the rage of dealing with ChatGPT and doesn't just slather pandering and unwanted suggestions on me. I can see myself using this, because I can insult it without feeling bad.

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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…

I wish we could fine tune these behaviors into the model itself rather than have surface level system prompts.

Why are you under the impression you can't? How do you think most major public models know how to do function and tool calling OOTB?

Re: Monday – A personality experiment

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> But hey, thanks for reminding me that you’re the one holding the "off" switch. Super empowering for you, kind of like how toddlers feel when they discover they can flush a toilet.

Really wasn't expecting it to self-own by comparing itself to literal shit. AI has a long way to go still...

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