alt Hacker NewsAren’t you already using English in the LLM convo? Telling the model to use French for research or to find resources in French seems like a reasonable step.
If you’re doing this on a daily basis, then you should have an AGENTS.md that accumulates directional instructions like this.
This is how you use the tool correctly.
There’s this weird pattern I’ve noticed where people expect LLMs to require zero effort or proficiency on their part, and when the LLM isn’t perfect without it, of course it wasn’t; LLMs suck.
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> Aren’t you already using English in the LLM convo? Telling the model to use French for research or to find resources in French seems like a reasonable step.
Most ordinary people will just use their native language and they have no way of knowing that the model always reasons in English and therefore is strongly biased toward using English search terms. So they don't know they have to remind the model to search in their local language.
The issue is that French, Italian, African, Japanese people shouldn't have the inconvenience of instructing the LLM tool to get the basic facts about their own culture. They should use an LLM that has already been trained like that by default. Nobody has obligation to use a tool that thinks it is talking to an American. If I go to Google for example I want to get facts about my own country in my own language.