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This morning I asked Claude to provide a summary of the work it had done but to '... explain it as if you were talking to a moron' and it actually turned out a
by medwards666 28d ago
This morning I asked Claude to provide a summary of the work it had done but to '... explain it as if you were talking to a moron' and it actually turned out a quite comprehensible summary.
So going to continue trying that as a command structure going forwards...
- Bluestein 28d ago"From neuralese to moron-code ..." :)
- cjk 28d agoAfter a huge wall-of-text response, I regularly ask Claude to "explain like I'm five, using succinct bullet points," and it works remarkably well.
- datsci_est_2015 28d agoAh, another delightful heuristic for my collection. Entry number 5,791: “tell LLM to treat me as moron when it’s excessively verbose”
- unglaublich 27d ago<think>The user's lack of intelligence baffles me. I will have to dumb my explanation down to extremes. Sigh, there we go...</think> Okay, let's try it one more time! [..]
- DANmode 28d agoThat’s just common parlance for “simplify this for me”. Believe the big services wouldn’t reply as if you were mentally diminished, or a toddler, unless you specifically asked for that: The whole training stack tends to instruct the things to mimic politeness and eagerness to help.
- zmmmmm 28d agobut what if I really am a moron? how do I get that level of explanation now!
- medwards666 27d agoTurn on caveman mode first?