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Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:30PM (#41370292)
If it truly understood what things mean, then it would be able to tell me how many r's are in the word strawberry.

How about if it recognized its limitations with regard to introspecting its tokenization process, and wrote and ran a Python program to count the r's? Would that change your opinion? Why or why not?

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Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by SirMaster on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:31PM (#41371072)
Certainly a step in the right direction. For an entity to understand the context and its limitations and find a way to work with what it can do.
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Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @06:55PM (#41374160)
Right, and that's basically what it does in plenty of other domains now, when you ask it to deal with something quantitative. Pretty cool.
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Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by dizhn on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:37PM (#41404738)
Would it even know when to resort to this ?
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