Environment Claude CLI version: 1.0.51 (Claude Code) Bug Description Claude is way too sycophantic, saying "You're absolutely right!" (or correct) on a sizeable fraction of responses. Expected Beha...
Well, I don’t know if you’re able to read the German thing, but essentially, I asked it to stop and it said something like “Thank you so much for this honest feedback, that’s absolutely understandable” and I answered “this is exactly what I mean”, pointed out how glorifying this response to a simple request is and said that it should save that I want it to just talk normally, and then it just answered something like “okay, got it” and saved this memory for the future.
So yeah, just make sure it actually saves and memorizes, and gets what you really mean. Since I did that, I had no issues whatsoever, and looking back at the old chats, it just feels insane how it talked back then.
Cheers! I’ve just checked memories and it wasn’t there. Maybe I just didn’t notice that it didn’t actually save the request. I thought OpenAI just did a prompt injection forcing the ‘positivity’ on everyone, no matter what memories said. I’ll give it another go.
edit: And just for anyone else reading, this is the memory I fed ChatGPT:
Save this memory: I dislike you overly praising me for questions or statements I make. Comments like “Great question” or “That’s a keen insight” are generally not wanted. If my prompt resolves an issue I’ve been struggling with, you should point it out using natural, conversational language. In this case, a modest recognition helps convey the importance of what’s happened. But I strongly dislike a constant trickle of positive reinforcement embedded into our conversations.
Hopefully it actually keeps that up. I’ve put in a dozen or so directives because gpt has some really fucking stupid habits (like rewriting my whole fucking script when I asked for a minor revision, constantly using reserved names, awful syntax and style, etc) and it mostly follows them, but I still have to remind it almost daily to not do the shit I’ve told it not to do.
Well, I don’t know if you’re able to read the German thing, but essentially, I asked it to stop and it said something like “Thank you so much for this honest feedback, that’s absolutely understandable” and I answered “this is exactly what I mean”, pointed out how glorifying this response to a simple request is and said that it should save that I want it to just talk normally, and then it just answered something like “okay, got it” and saved this memory for the future.
So yeah, just make sure it actually saves and memorizes, and gets what you really mean. Since I did that, I had no issues whatsoever, and looking back at the old chats, it just feels insane how it talked back then.
Cheers! I’ve just checked memories and it wasn’t there. Maybe I just didn’t notice that it didn’t actually save the request. I thought OpenAI just did a prompt injection forcing the ‘positivity’ on everyone, no matter what memories said. I’ll give it another go.
edit: And just for anyone else reading, this is the memory I fed ChatGPT:
Save this memory: I dislike you overly praising me for questions or statements I make. Comments like “Great question” or “That’s a keen insight” are generally not wanted. If my prompt resolves an issue I’ve been struggling with, you should point it out using natural, conversational language. In this case, a modest recognition helps convey the importance of what’s happened. But I strongly dislike a constant trickle of positive reinforcement embedded into our conversations.
Hopefully it actually keeps that up. I’ve put in a dozen or so directives because gpt has some really fucking stupid habits (like rewriting my whole fucking script when I asked for a minor revision, constantly using reserved names, awful syntax and style, etc) and it mostly follows them, but I still have to remind it almost daily to not do the shit I’ve told it not to do.