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flustercan 37 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't be a meat proxy

I append "sound kinda dumb but be factually correct" to my Claude requests and get much less jargony responses.

bergen 37 days ago | [–]

So you're telling me you haven't read the article?

ilvez 37 days ago | [–]

I'll try that. I'm constantly telling it to be "brief, plain and on the point" or something similar. Tried caveman, but I think it had it's own issues.

But the jargon heavy very long responses are my main issue with it I guess.

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