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nickcwtoday at 8:17 AM1 replyview on HN

LLMs are very prone to priming in my experience. That is the human psychology name for what you are describing; whether it should be applied to LLMs I don't know, but it describes the phenomenon perfectly.


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jimbokuntoday at 8:56 PM

Makes sense as priming is at the core of how an LLM is trained.

“Given these words, predict the next word.”