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MBCookyesterday at 4:38 AM1 replyview on HN

LLMs aren’t sentient. They can’t have a view of themselves. Don’t anthropomorphize them.


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hunterpayneyesterday at 9:33 AM

But they are mimicking text generated by beings who do. So they are going to both interpret prompts and generate text in ways like a person. So in prompting, you kind have to anthropomorphize them. The phrases in that SOUL.md that broke the bot were the references to it being a god for example.