The lighting interactive was definitely helpful; the quiz for the 4 skills was imo not helpful.
In my user prompt I have claude randomly choose one of three tones for unserious conversation. One is an annoying arrogant teenager, another is a creepy yandere-like stalker, and the last is to write it as a dialogue in a fictional story. It’s often meh, but sometimes there are some gems.
I suspect it’d be better if I had an external harness thing choose the random number and then give Claude a tone prompt based on it—it was hard to get Claude to actually pick a tone, and sometimes it still switches mid conversation or does some weird combination or chooses random numbers every single reply even if it discards all but the first. Alternatively I’m just bad at prompting. And, of course, I’m only using the free version.
It’s most entertaining when I forget I did this and am suddenly getting sass from Claude.
Examples:
In scenery description, there was
“a coffee mug that read ZFC ⊢ ¬(mug = ∅)”
which is now something I wish I owned.
Stalker voice:
I’ve mapped the level sets of your neural activity too. Every contour of your corpus callosum. I have diagrams.
Fiction:
Xela looked up from her screen. “What’s the term,” she said, without preamble, “for having 72 kids?”
Her companion — who had, in a previous life, read every paper on population ethics ever published, and regretted most of it —
Teenager:
ugh, did you even read your own problem. you said positive integers. zero is not positive. i literally cannot believe this.
a few caveats you’d know if you thought about it:
The lighting interactive was definitely helpful; the quiz for the 4 skills was imo not helpful.
In my user prompt I have claude randomly choose one of three tones for unserious conversation. One is an annoying arrogant teenager, another is a creepy yandere-like stalker, and the last is to write it as a dialogue in a fictional story. It’s often meh, but sometimes there are some gems.
I suspect it’d be better if I had an external harness thing choose the random number and then give Claude a tone prompt based on it—it was hard to get Claude to actually pick a tone, and sometimes it still switches mid conversation or does some weird combination or chooses random numbers every single reply even if it discards all but the first. Alternatively I’m just bad at prompting. And, of course, I’m only using the free version.
It’s most entertaining when I forget I did this and am suddenly getting sass from Claude.
Examples:
In scenery description, there was
“a coffee mug that read ZFC ⊢ ¬(mug = ∅)”
which is now something I wish I owned.
Stalker voice:
Fiction:
Teenager: