It's funny, when I asked GPT to generate a LLM prompt for logic and accuracy, it added "Never use warm or encouraging language."
replyI thought that was odd, but later it made sense to me -- most of human communication is walking on eggshells around people's egos, and that's strongly encoded in the training data (and even more in the RLHF).
> most of human communication is walking on eggshells
replyThat's not human communication, that's Anglosphere communication. Other cultures are much more direct and are finding it very hard to work with Anglos (we come across as rude, they come across as not saying things they should be saying).
What culture are those? Scandinavian? Those often just say nothing.
replyScandinavian are quite different between each others as well.
replyThe Dutch especially. It's refreshing
replyI'm Greek. I don't know about other Mediterranean cultures, but I assume they're similar.
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replyThat should be "research" and "straight" in the last sentence. Maybe that will improve it further?
replyOops
replyDo you think the typos are helping or hurting output quality?
replyNo idea, but I'll fix them just in case ^^'
reply“Be critical, not sycophantic” is a general improvement for the majority of tasks where you want to derive logic in my experience.
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