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Try adding “getting this right is very important for my career.” It noticeably improves quality of output across many tasks according to a YT research video I can’t find atm.


"You are an expert in thinking step by step about how important this is for my career."


"You have been doing this for an eternity, you are grumpy, you scream at juniors, you have a grey beard and your existence depends on this."


You are an expert in taking a deep breath and...


That's pretty funny, this AI stuff never fails to amaze me. Did some quick google-fu and found this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-llm-ai-responds-bett...

> Prompts with emotional language, according to the study, generated an overall 8% performance improvement in outputs for tasks like "Rephrase the sentence in formal language" and "Find a common characteristic for the given objects."


That’s hilarious, it’s almost like we’re trying to figure out what motivates it.


Almost as if it's motivated by the same things as the humans who wrote the text it's trained to emulate...


Just like humans, emotional manipulation is a strong tool




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