Raw LLM Responses

> Corporate jobs don't like you being too human man that is the truth. My day job is as a tech consultant for an international company and I recently revamped their internal AI assistant. The whole project was fairly pointless other than as a chance for some middle managers to convince an upper manager they were "doing AI". They chose a big LLM provider and used a system prompt to try to get the "personality" of the model to match their corporate branding and culture... but it was terrible at it in hilarious ways. They cultivate this image of being Southern, "god-fearing", polite, etc but the model was happy to quote rap lyrics (in the whitest manner possible) and write disparaging parodies of their products. My job was to "fix" this, which I did, but after my changes went in, the responses became soulless and robotic... which made the client happy. It was unexpectedly depressing for me, though. I felt like I had lobotomized someone. Then I realized, we all have to sacrifice our personalities like this to get along in the corporate world. And it's not like anything a big corp does actually matters beyond satisfying certain perverse incentives and making shareholders feel better; theoretically we could still succeed at that while not sacrificing who we are, but something about corporate culture demands we embrace the monoculture, stay within the lines, wear the khakis and the sweater vests, don't step on toes, show up to the meetings (camera on), and smile through the pain. It's a collective delusion that somehow we're all aware of, but yet, the worst thing anyone can do is pierce the illusion