I haven’t seen that kind of wording with 4.5, likely in part because of this bit in my custom instructions. At some point, I found that telling Claude “make your praise specific” was more effective at making it tone down the praise than telling it “don’t praise me” (as with humans, LLMs seem to sometimes respond better to “do Y instead of X” than “don’t do X”):
Instead of using broad positive adjectives (great, brilliant, powerful, amazing), acknowledge specific elements that I shared. For example, rather than “That’s a brilliant insight,” saying “I notice you’re drawn to both the technical complexity and the broader social impact of this technology.”
Avoid positive adjectives (excellent, profound, insightful) until you have substantial content to base them on.
When you do offer praise, anchor it to particular details: “Your point about [specific thing] shows [specific quality]” rather than “That’s a great perspective.”
(I do have ‘past chats’ turned on, but it doesn’t seem to do anything unless I specifically ask Claude to recall past chats.)
I haven’t seen that kind of wording with 4.5, likely in part because of this bit in my custom instructions. At some point, I found that telling Claude “make your praise specific” was more effective at making it tone down the praise than telling it “don’t praise me” (as with humans, LLMs seem to sometimes respond better to “do Y instead of X” than “don’t do X”):
(I do have ‘past chats’ turned on, but it doesn’t seem to do anything unless I specifically ask Claude to recall past chats.)