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0 pointsmotoxpro1mo ago0 comments

I think you missed some of the point. If you say "Display information A using B format" but the model doesn't know A then you will get a more negative "emotional" response (e.g. desparation "I don't know this, but I am supposed to display it, I will just make something up")

Taking that into account allows you to get better responses from the tool. It's not sentient, but it also is more complicated than bytecode.

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reg_dunlop1mo ago

Hmm, maybe. Though my initial reaction is the response isn't "emotional". An LLM isn't capable of emotion. Sure it's capable of assessing a quantitative score of sentiment to words/phrases...though that's not the same as an actual emotion.

If the tool being used generates fantastical fiction that isn't supported by factual data or verifiable systems, then eventually that falsehood will bubble to the surface; whether that is immediate (parsed through my own bullshit-meter) , the near future (during an agent-session that reveals itself to be a hallucination) or in the long-run (production bug/tech debt).

It's not my job to get an ideal "emotional" response from a machine. It's my job to deliver deterministic results with minimal fuck ups.

Emotion has no place in this exchange. If I don't know something, aren't I expected to admit it? And then do the work to subdue the knowledge to bring it under my domain?

Factual knowledge does not cease to exist because someone's in a bad mood....

motoxproOP1mo ago

Then substitute another word for emotion that fit better for you, but I would much rather take into account what this article is saying (e.g. using this string of text is likely to give you hallucinations. see my example) then have production bugs.

If it is your job to get deterministic results, this is a tool in the toolbox to do that and your original approach has been shown (see the results in this paper) to generate worse outcomes.

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