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pith:6KYE2ZN7

pith:2023:6KYE2ZN7TVQZI7LR2AG3SZT4T5

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When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

David Jurgens, Jiaxin Pei, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Mingqian Zheng, Moontae Lee

arxiv:2311.10054 v3 · 2023-11-16 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.HC · cs.LG

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Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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f2b04d65bf9d61947d71d00db9667c9f442ba93af6051f2c92b3c2254b9eb9b9

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arxiv: 2311.10054 · arxiv_version: 2311.10054v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.10054 · pith_short_12: 6KYE2ZN7TVQZ · pith_short_16: 6KYE2ZN7TVQZI7LR · pith_short_8: 6KYE2ZN7

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6KYE2ZN7TVQZI7LR2AG3SZT4T5 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: f2b04d65bf9d61947d71d00db9667c9f442ba93af6051f2c92b3c2254b9eb9b9

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    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-11-16T17:48:55Z",
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