> One thing that I think is dangerous with the current LLM models though is the sycophancy problem. Like, all the time chatGPT is like "Great question!"

100%

In ChatGPT I have the Basic Style and Tone set to "Efficient: concise and plain". For Characteristics I've set:

- Warm: less

- Enthusiastic: less

- Headers and lists: default

- Emoji: less

And custom instructions:

> Minimize sycophancy. Do not congratulate or praise me in any response. Minimize, though not eliminate, the use of em dashes and over-use of “marketing speak”.

Yeah why are basically all models so sycophantic anyway. I'm so done with getting encouragement and appreciation of my choices even when they're clearly wrong.

I tried similar prompts but they didn't really work.