[mattlondon]

I hit this wall quite hard a couple of months ago. I was getting extremely frustrated and feeling incredibly burnt-out and frankly quite unsettled by how I was behaving and ultimately spiralling into something of a furious rage-depression that would totally sour my entire day at work and at home. I've seen the canned "crisis response" now more times than I'd care to count.

I changed the system prompt to ask it to only ever use 3rd person, and to never present a human identity or persona. Act like a tool would, not a conversation etc. At the same time I also tried to drop asking it things in a conversational tone myself and give it more direct instructions without any polite/florid extra words, and provide bullet points for what I wanted.

I think this helped somewhat, and helped me to break the spiral a bit. I used it for a week or two before I turned it off again. I still get frustrated, but I tend not to spiral quite so much and it doesn't ruin my day any more.

I still get annoyed as hell by it always having to have "the last word" when I am berating it though (e.g. it will cheerily respond "I hear you. I'll be here and ready when you are!" in response to a prompt from me like "JUST FUCKING FUCK OFF AND FUCKING DIE I FUCKING HATE YOU." etc. Sigh).