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0 pointsMaxikCZ12h ago0 comments

> drop the human pretense entirely. Make the agent sound clinical, robotic

Id pay to be able to reliably set LLMs to this mode, but ofc because LLMs are taught on corpus of HUMAN text, they always, sooner or later, return to the good old penpal mode.

Also, in Claude Desktop app, I ask to edit a file, it complains it cant access files, I then realize im in Chat and not Code interface. Why cant such a smart machine figure out to switch the modes, or borrow the skills/abilities from one tab away into this tab? Instead I get A4 page of text explaninig what can I do to edit the file myself or how to feed it, but the "just click Code" is just never there. I would guess this is just a system prompt away, why is all this still so neglected?

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halapro12h ago

> such a smart machine figure out to switch the modes

Because it's not smart. We keep confusing verbosity with smartness. AI will happily keep yapping nonsense to an inattentive listener. An actually smart entity would not do that if not acting maliciously.

Swizec12h ago

> An actually smart entity would not do that if not acting maliciously.

We pay per token and every entity falls to the level of its incentives.

apsurd12h ago

Sandboxing is a feature.

Poor AI is damned if it does damned if it doesn't.

bojan12h ago

Weird, I have exactly the same experience with GitHub Copilot Plugin in JetBrains vs Copilot CLI in the built-in terminal.

The plugin keeps asking for permissions, the terminal app just works.

Foskya11h ago

> Id pay to be able to reliably set LLMs to this mode,

You can do it for free. Just give it instrucitons to avoid emotional tones and flattery and it will sound a lot more robotic. If you look into other examples I'm sure you will find other good instructions based on your need

antonvs9h ago

I've found OpenAI's personality setting works pretty well if you choose the professional personality and disable all the frills. I did that a while back so I'd have to go dig up the details. Since then it doesn't even engage me if I make a joke or similar - it just focuses on the goals.

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