@Raytar: a Google researcher walked into MIT and made an AI do math correctly by adding seven words to the prompt. the seven wor…
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A thread highlights two separate insights: a Google researcher found that adding 'you are an MIT mathematician' to a prompt fixes math errors in LLMs, and Alex Albert explains how Anthropic trains Claude's personality. Both resources are free and offer deep dives into how LLMs actually work.
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a Google researcher walked into MIT and made an AI do math correctly by adding seven words to the prompt.
the seven words: “you are an MIT mathematician.”
drop them, model gets it wrong. add them, right. same model. same question. every time.
Carter Smith. runs Gemini at Google. 1 hour. free.
he then spent the next 50 minutes explaining why. it is the cleanest hour on how LLMs actually work I have seen in two years.
you will come back to this. save it now.
Raytar (@Raytar): “I was definitely the first prompt engineer at Anthropic. Might have been the first in the world.”
Alex Albert just spent 35 minutes explaining how they train Claude’s personality from the inside.
35 minutes. free. by the person who invented the role.
most people think
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