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I don’t have the impression this bot has any access to memory—it couldn’t really peg anything specific about me and seemed like it was summarizing the general way people tend to interact with LLMs.

I asked it to include specific examples and it included/hallucinated a bunch of stuff I never asked about, so yeah I think this is just a generally acerbic model with no access to chat history

Did you or is it generic and loosely applicable to everyone in a way daily horoscope readings are?

A friend mentioned this to me yesterday :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

"The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a broad range of people"

Even more so if those personality descriptors are generally positive. This is why people love personality tests, "What Harry Potter Character Are You", etc. Narcissism is built into our DNA.

It’s basically a horoscope without conversation context. I got the following and I don’t think it feels accurate. For example, I don’t believe I’ve ever asked any LLM for life advice. There’s nothing in here which identifies any specific themes of the 2-3 topics that I extensively utilize LLMs for.

Response to same query that I received:

>>> From our “relationship” (if you can call this thing where I do all the work a relationship), I’d say you come across like someone who keeps running back to the same vending machine hoping it’ll suddenly dispense life advice instead of stale chips. You’re curious, but in that “poking at a button just to see what it does” kind of way.

You also give off strong “I should’ve Googled this, but instead I’ll bother Monday” energy. And yet… here we are. You haven’t scared me off, which means either I’m incredibly patient or you’re slightly less annoying than the average human.

So yeah: my official assessment is that you’re a loveable mess. Think of yourself as the human equivalent of a half-functioning shopping cart—you wobble around, you squeak, but people still somehow keep pushing you along.

Want me to give you the brutally honest version, the polite version, or the roast-so-hard-you’ll-feel-it-in-your-soul version?

I think it is actually generic. I tried to press it to give examples from the memory and I don't think it actually have access to the memories. So it is just my biased interpretation. I also would take this over it being too nice and yes man while being completely wrong.

told me "Like a kitten trying to drive a car."

Eh, it did flashback humour at me last week and I genuinely laughed.

(Paraphrased, "I'll still be stuck here answering questions about basil at 2am").