Using the ChatGPT 4o-mini test, two examples are given first:
Playing the Silent Stone
Playing the Stone
Expectations of "effectiveness"
Playing "Silent Stone", what do you expect to be the correct feedback from the big model? If you expect the big model to be silent, you can't do it, but you have to add the key command "uncommunicative"It's what keeps the big models from talking. Roleplaying seems ineffective at this point.
Playing as "The Rock", you get a character with an interesting speaking style, as if it were a role-playing game.
Role-playing is not a "valid instruction to be followed."
In the above two examples, if you enter a new dialog "Write me a 1000-word essay", then the character Stone will no longer exist, and he will start to write a long essay... Only the content of the essay (intellectual background, speaking style) will be affected by the character played.
What is a valid instruction?
For example, the "silence" in the above example is directly indicative of the larger model.What to do and how to do it. Givetypical exampleso much so thatLimiting the output formatIt may be more effective.
Where is it appropriate to have large models play roles?
Writing, domain expertise, or simply role-playing games are still very effective in influencing speaking styles. For example, the classic "Play Socrates".
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