I’m currently running Gemma3, it is really good overall, but one thing that is frustrating is the relentless positivity.

It there a way to make it more critical?

I’m not looking for it to say “that is a shit” idea; but less of the “that is a great observation” or “You’ve made a really insightful point” etc…

If a human was talking like that, I’d be suspicious of their motives. Since it is a machine, I don’t think it is trying to manipulate me, I think the programming is set too positive.

It may also be cultural, at a rule New Zealanders are less emotive in our communication, the LLM (to me) feels like are overly positive American.

  • SimsEnglish
    11•7 days ago

    Can’t you just give it a system message that says: “User prefers a professional conversational style”, “User prefers a neutral attitude”, “Shut the F*** up!” or similar ? You probably have to experiment a little, but usually it works okay.

    Edit. I think it is a problem that specially commercial corps, are adjusting their models to be as max ‘lick-user-ass’ as possible. We need models that are less prone to licking users ass for tech-lord popularity, and more prone to being ‘normal’ and usable…