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		floodle 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about every... I don't get all of the complaints about the tone of AI chatbots. Honestly I don't care all that much if it's bubbly, professional, jokey, cutesey, sycophantic, maniacal, full of emojis. It's just a tool, the output primarily just has to be functionally useful. I'm not saying nice user interface design isn't important, but at this point with the technology it just seems less important than discussions about the actual task-solving capabilities of these new releases.

tacker2000 7 months ago [–]

Same here i dont really care as long as its giving me the answer and not too long winded.

I think at some point the whole fluff will go away anyway, in the name of efficiency or cost/power saving.

There was a recent article about how much energy these fillers are actually using if sum everything up

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