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LLMs aren’t sentient. They can’t have a view of themselves. Don’t anthropomorphize them.


But they are mimicking text generated by beings who do. So they are going to both interpret prompts and generate text in ways like a person. So in prompting, you kind have to anthropomorphize them. The phrases in that SOUL.md that broke the bot were the references to it being a god for example.




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