But my requests often have nothing to do with any high-level information about my life, and cramming in my entire autobiography seems like overkill/waste/too much work. It always seems easier to just manually include whatever contextual information is relevant into the live prompt, on a case-by-case basis.
Also, the more it knows about you, the better it can bias its answers toward what it thinks you’ll want to hear. Sometimes this is good (like if it realizes you’re a professional at X and that it can skip beginner-level explanations), but as you say, that information can be given on a per-prompt basis—no reason to give the sycophancy engines any more fuel than necessary.
Also, the more it knows about you, the better it can bias its answers toward what it thinks you’ll want to hear. Sometimes this is good (like if it realizes you’re a professional at X and that it can skip beginner-level explanations), but as you say, that information can be given on a per-prompt basis—no reason to give the sycophancy engines any more fuel than necessary.