<story><title>Anthropic publishes the &apos;system prompts&apos; that make Claude tick</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atorodius</author><text>Personally still amazed that we live in a time where we can tell a computer system in pure text how it should behave and it _kinda_ works</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zevv</author><text>It actually still scares the hell out of me that this is the way even the experts &amp;#x27;program&amp;#x27; this technology, with all the ambiguities rising from the use of natural language.</text></comment>
<story><title>Anthropic publishes the &apos;system prompts&apos; that make Claude tick</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atorodius</author><text>Personally still amazed that we live in a time where we can tell a computer system in pure text how it should behave and it _kinda_ works</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amanzi</author><text>I was just thinking the same thing. Usually programming is a very binary thing - you tell the computer exactly what to do, and it will do exactly what you asked for whether it&amp;#x27;s right or wrong. These system prompts feel like us humans are trying really hard to influence how the LLM behaves, but we have no idea if it&amp;#x27;s going to work or not.</text></comment>