Few-shot beats system prompts for making AI write like you
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I automate a chunk of my social content, and the biggest quality jump came from a boring change: fewer instructions, more examples. Instruction tuning ("witty, conversational, no corporate speak") converges on the same voice for everyone, because everyone writes roughly the same adjectives. The model regresses to the mean of its training data with a light stylistic filter on top. What actually moved the output: few-shot with my own archive. Around 50 published posts in context gives the model…
1Key Takeaways
- I automate a chunk of my social content, and the biggest quality jump came from a boring change: fewer instructions, more examples.
- Instruction tuning ("witty, conversational, no corporate speak") converges on the same voice for everyone, because everyone writes roughly the same adjectives.
- The model regresses to the mean of its training data with a light stylistic filter on top.
- What actually moved the output: few-shot with my own archive.
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