When I ask Copilot something, the response usually starts with “Great question!”, followed by emojis and encouraging words that gently pet my fragile ego. Pretty much anything seems to pass for a “good question”, so if my questions are able to surpass that exceedingly low standard, I no longer feel very confident about their quality.

Am I the only one feeling this way? Anyone else noticing how excessive encouragement can have the opposite effect?

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzOP
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    14 hours ago

    GPT has a place in the setting where you can tell it to skip the flattery and follow up questions. Copilot doesn’t, but it’s just a budget LLM in more than one way, so that checks out.

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      14 hours ago

      I don’t use copilot, but can’t you just set ‘system prompt’ in it?

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          13 hours ago
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          Great question! 😺

          Quick search confirms that it’s possible, and they even advertise it, but I don’t have enough mental strenght to jump trough the hoops needed to find out where exactly is it on microsofts numerous sites.

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            5 hours ago

            LOL. Good one! This sort of stuff just ruins LLMs for future generations.

            Anyway, I’ll see what I can find. Thanks.