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"act as a senior xxx expert with over 15 years of industry experience"

... I just don't get why LLMs are affected by this kind of nonsense -- is it due to training rewards?

The way I think about it, the training data (i.e. the internet) has X% of people asking something like "explain it to me like I'm five years old" and Y% of people framing it like "I'm technical, explain this to me in detail". You use the "act as a senior XXX" when you want to bias the output towards something more detailed.

imagine how to prepare for an interview? Act confident lol

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