Jackson Kernion on AI

I think this talk of a character misleads. Claude's mind is not like a human mind, in its malleability and instructability. But when generating assistant tokens, it's no more 'playing a character' than I am.

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Short sentences keep the pace up, so the reader never has to re-read a line.

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Structure: Hook → Turn
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: personal
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