It's a bit less "anodyne" than GPT. GPT tends to give the most "mainstream" answer in many cases and is less "malleable" so to speak. I remember the differences between RLHF'd GPT and the original davinci GPT-3 before mode collapse. If you spent a while on a good prompt, it really paid off.

Thankfully, Claude seems to maintain this "creativity" somehow.

It's excellent at recommending books, creative writing, etc.

For coding, it's not as good as GPT-4, but still helps me more than GPT in certain coding tasks.