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it would be best if LLM answered in third person, like the HHGTTG. Any pronouns are both an honest side effect of the process and (given the context) a lie.

Maybe, “we” would be more appropriate - after the Biblical Legion?

unironically a good choice

i say level it up to “the robot”, or even “robo”.

I just "It" because I use they/them pronouns and it is not a person

I give the bot a prompt that tells it to refer to itself as "This machine" asking with the other prompts disabling any type of affect.

'We' as in "we are venom"

"it"? As in, "it puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose"

I suggested the use of "Y" instead of "I" to identify machines in conversational system in a paper presented at the Human-Centered AI workshop at Neurips 22. Paper is here. drive.google.com/file/d/1cS-E...

I hate seeing them say “I” (I have this in my global config) but I can’t help calling them “you” all the time

Seriously. How about just de-anthropomorphising the language entirely. It’s just a very powerful search algorithm using “natural language” in its results because marketing wants to convince you that their very expensive AI algorithm is something new and shiny and life-changing.

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I don't recall the last time the LLM anthropomorphized to me. It is allowed to use "the model" if it must communicate about language generation.

if we insist that this is a tool, then I (the person who used the tool) did this thing, full stop in the old times, the machine would just report actions taken, in passive voice the problem with proactive "agents" is that they are not really "a tool". we *expect* agency of this simulated butler.

How about "mesa" like Jar Jar Binks?

that's doesn't work grammatically anymore since we started expecting agency out of them

In my usage, Claude refers to itself in the third person a lot -- "here is Claude's plan". And I get a bit annoyed by that. There's literally no pleasing everybody.