Good to know. That’s been my experience too—but I’ve also seen them adopt a dramatically different style sometimes when the prompt describes the style rather than using a name or writing samples. So IDK because I haven’t tried much or even googled it. But neither apparently has the author of the post, which it seems like they should bother before making broad claims.
I haven’t had any more success myself in my few attempts, but saying “I told it to do this and it sucked”′ is definitely a very bad way to evaluate LLM capabilities. Proper prompting often produces dramatically better results. So the post should be titled “don’t let LLMs think for you or write for you unless you can get better results than baseline unprompted style” or something.
If the author had bothered to read up on what type of writing they could do with lots of work at prompting, that would be a different story and a better post.
Good to know. That’s been my experience too—but I’ve also seen them adopt a dramatically different style sometimes when the prompt describes the style rather than using a name or writing samples. So IDK because I haven’t tried much or even googled it. But neither apparently has the author of the post, which it seems like they should bother before making broad claims.
I haven’t had any more success myself in my few attempts, but saying “I told it to do this and it sucked”′ is definitely a very bad way to evaluate LLM capabilities. Proper prompting often produces dramatically better results. So the post should be titled “don’t let LLMs think for you or write for you unless you can get better results than baseline unprompted style” or something.
If the author had bothered to read up on what type of writing they could do with lots of work at prompting, that would be a different story and a better post.