[Terr_]

> I apologized to it and told it to think like an LLM instead of the person I was treating it as.

It sounds like you didn't actually stop treating it like a person. Pareidolia is a helluva instinct.

[pixelbro]

It's a language model. Language is what it models. So you use language to move it into an advantageous state space. Dunno what you want from me, lol.

[Terr_]

It's kind of a "code that gets the immediate result you want" versus "code that puts the developer in the right headspace for maintaining it" thing.

Ultimately you're not conversing with any real LLM, it's iterative document generation where humans perceive fictional characters in the output. If the text you contribute says "You're just an {Noun}" that's that's shaping the document output based on what got trained in relation to {Noun}.

Which may eventually backfire, when the (real) LLM gets trained on documents such as blog-posts like "The moment you realize the {Noun} is retarded."