Something I’ve found really useful is to give Claude a couple of examples of Claude-isms (in my case “the key insight” and “fascinating”) and say “In the past, you’ve over-used these phrases: [phrases] you might want to cut down on them”. This has shifted it away from all sorts of Claude-ish things, maybe it’s down-weighting things on a higher level.
Seems similar to the “anti-examples” prompting trick I’ve been trying: taking the edits elicited from a chatbot, and reversing them to serve as few-shot anti-examples of what not to do. (This would tend to pick up X-isms.)
Something I’ve found really useful is to give Claude a couple of examples of Claude-isms (in my case “the key insight” and “fascinating”) and say “In the past, you’ve over-used these phrases: [phrases] you might want to cut down on them”. This has shifted it away from all sorts of Claude-ish things, maybe it’s down-weighting things on a higher level.
Seems similar to the “anti-examples” prompting trick I’ve been trying: taking the edits elicited from a chatbot, and reversing them to serve as few-shot anti-examples of what not to do. (This would tend to pick up X-isms.)
Any specifics about system prompts you use in general? Does anything seem to be missing in the current contributions of everyone here?