Ask an LLM "what Is the Time?"
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A post asking what happens when you ask a large language model 'What is the time?'
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Fade_Dance
4 months ago
Seems like this is something that would be hard coded in. So these engines ever branch to hard-coded response structures, or is the system prompt the extent of the control over the generated response?
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