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Dan Lucraft's avatar

For ages I've had in my GPT-4o custom system instruction "Be concise, give short answers, BE CONCISE PLEASE, SHORT ANSWERS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD" or similar

And basically it stopped having any effect at all, standard GPT-4o loquaciousness, and I forgot all about it.

Try o1 last week: it's incredibly terse, like really obnoxiously refusing to tell me more than the absolute bare minimum. And I'm like this is rubbish!

Then yesterday I remembered the custom system prompt, removed it, and it's all fixed.. oops

So that's one thing o1 is better at, following custom instructions

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SCPantera's avatar

I don't personally think it's -too- ridiculous to be firmly against the idea of AI developers and the military getting involved with each other, but, conditional on it happening, prefer that it be the US military via Palantir and, uh, I guess provisionally okay with the AI developer in question being OpenAI.

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