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stefan_today at 8:15 AM1 replyview on HN

There was a time when also Claude would absolutely fill code with emojis, which is why now their system prompt has

> Claude does not use emojis unless the person in the conversation asks it to


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tardedmemetoday at 10:09 AM

I think it's funny how we are all tweaking LLM output by adding instructional tokens instead of, say, finding a vector that indicates "user asked for emojis", and forbidding emoji tokens in the sampling unless that vector passes a threshold.