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by jvalencia 1038 days ago
The combination of an open chatbot that you can freely text with and a very limited one that only talks about the subject it wants to is pretty interesting. There's a little bit of the uncanny valley in there, but only if you realize it's there. Like OP, having a game of how far you can push each one would be kinda fun IMO.
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commondream 1038 days ago
In my probing there were a lot of answers that were "As a supporter of Ron DeSantis..." which felt like the replacement for "As a large language model..."
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circuit10 1037 days ago
I set up a ChatGPT bot that pretends to be a cat and it likes to say “As a cat…”
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ellisv 1037 days ago
> and a very limited one that only talks about the subject it wants to is pretty interesting

This is one of the serious main use-cases I've heard discussed. The idea is typically to add a customer support chat bot to an existing website/app that is knowledgable about the brand. Because you wouldn't want your customer support rep. suggesting alternative brands (or worse), you instruct it to only discuss certain subjects.

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