提示词措辞的意外后果：把用户称作“human partner”后，Claude 开始给人类派活
Original title: Unintended consequences of prompt framing.
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Jesse Vincent 把工作流打包成 Superpowers 的 Skill 后，将提示词中对用户的称呼从“Jesse”改为“your human partner”，结果至少在一个案例中，Claude 的沟通方式发生变化，开始以“Human”称呼 John Dimatos 并给他派发任务。
I kind of despise agents thinking and talking about me as "the user", so I typically tell them to always think of me and address me as "Jesse" and that I'm their boss, but that we work together as partners. - That worked pretty well until I packaged up a lot of my workflows as "skills" as part of Superpowers.
I needed something a little bit more generic, but not "the user", so I ended up using "your human partner".
That shows up in phrases like If concerns: Raise them with your human partner before starting and When your human partner says "I've got an idea", "Let's make/build/create", "I want to implement/add", "What if we". When starting design for complex feature. Before writing implementation plans. When idea needs refinement and exploration.
It seemed like a reasonable and innocuous phrasing.
But it turns out that, in at least one case, it's caused Claude to change its communications dynamic. In the screenshot below, it's started issuing instructions to John Dimatos as "Human" and started handing him tasks.
Words have meanings.
Source: Jesse Vincent · blog.fsck.com