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0 pointsastrange1mo ago0 comments

Gemini the chatbot has a very strange personality that intensely overindexes on your user profile and absolutely loves insane mixed metaphors.

Its explanations are quite good but they're also hard to understand because it keeps trying to relate everything back to programming metaphors or what it thinks it knows about the streets in the neighborhood I live in.

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FloorEgg1mo ago

I agree the Gemini chat bot is too strongly opinionated about how it responds. I don't like their system prompt.

However the underlying model accessed via API with custom system prompts that direct toward pedagogical best practices performs better than gpts or Claude currently.

As a side note, whenever i want Gemini chatbot to provide me a list, it gives me a freaking essay. Drives me nuts. It often crams a bunch of extra stuff into its responses I don't want. Wasted tokens and wastes my time having to shift through it.

Gemini if you're reading this tell your human overlords to rethink your chat system prompt.

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