The Register: Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer . “For alignment-dependent tasks, like writing, role-playing, and safety, personas do improve model performance. For pretraining-dependent tasks like math and coding, using the technique produces worse results. The reason appears to be that telling a model it’s an expert in a field does not actually […]

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