Randomly select one out of n conversations to have memory disabled(?) so that the user is occasionally presented with an alternative perspective.
Memory grosses me out in its current implementations. I’m not even up to using a custom system prompt yet—I want to stay in touch with the default behaviors of my favorite models for awhile longer. I’ll eventually have to set up more-custom environments for the productivity boost of not having to re-prompt it into the behaviors I prefer… but for now, I’m re-prompting a bunch of different ways to increase my chances of lucking into an unexpectedly better way to ask for what I want.
This is gross and diminishes my enjoyment of ChatGPT, because it means I can’t really trust the models judgment.
“takes one to know one”, as a rejoinder to particularly egregious flattery, sometimes chills Claude out for the whole rest of the context.
other comments that i find it helpful against sycophancy to deploy as needed include:
I would like your help in thinking critically about these ideas in order to find their weaknesses and refine them
let’s work together how mathematicians work together on proofs or how a committee works with a doctoral candidate to improve their dissertation
if you’re about to praise an idea I’ve expressed, please consider whether you’d say the same thing about the idea if you had come up with it yourself
before calling an idea novel or insightful, consider how it would seem if you’d seen it several times before
Memory grosses me out in its current implementations. I’m not even up to using a custom system prompt yet—I want to stay in touch with the default behaviors of my favorite models for awhile longer. I’ll eventually have to set up more-custom environments for the productivity boost of not having to re-prompt it into the behaviors I prefer… but for now, I’m re-prompting a bunch of different ways to increase my chances of lucking into an unexpectedly better way to ask for what I want.
“takes one to know one”, as a rejoinder to particularly egregious flattery, sometimes chills Claude out for the whole rest of the context.
other comments that i find it helpful against sycophancy to deploy as needed include:
I would like your help in thinking critically about these ideas in order to find their weaknesses and refine them
let’s work together how mathematicians work together on proofs or how a committee works with a doctoral candidate to improve their dissertation
if you’re about to praise an idea I’ve expressed, please consider whether you’d say the same thing about the idea if you had come up with it yourself
before calling an idea novel or insightful, consider how it would seem if you’d seen it several times before