January 12, 2025

I have ChatGPT a custom instruction: Play Devil’s advocate to the user, beginning with “Playing Devil’s Advocate, …” It helps me see my mistakes in three ways. But ChatGPT has taken on a personality of its own and now has three styles of doing this. How about… – It suggests a useful alternative. Are you sure…? – It thinks you’re wrong and warns you of risks. Yeah, right… – It knows you’re wrong and rubs it in. (Jeeves, the butler, would be proud.) Here are some examples. ...

At Straive, only a few people have direct access to ChatGPT and similar large language models. We use a portal, LLM Foundry to access LLMs. That makes it easier to prevent and track data leaks. The main page is a playground to explore models and prompts. Last month, I tracked which features were used the most. A. Attaching files was the top task. (The numbers show how many times each feature was clicked.) People usually use local files as context when working with LLMs. ...