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cpldcpu | 3 months ago

Not a big fan of emojis becoming the norm in LLM output.

It seems Grok 4.1 uses more emojis than 4.

Also GPT5.1 thinking is now using emojis, even in math reasoning. 5 didn't do that.

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chrisnight|3 months ago

I personally don’t like it intertwined with conversation, but I do think I like how it adds color to help emphasize certain information, outside of the text. A red X or a green checkmark is easier to see at the start than a sentence saying something is valid halfway through a paragraph.

Also, it using emojis helps as a signal that certain content is LLM generated, which is beneficial in its own right.

jsnell|3 months ago

Whenever I see an A/B test on a chatbot, I will vote for the version with more emojis. It might be petty, but it's all the rebellion I've got left.

If enough people do it, I'm sure we can make the emoji-singularity happen before the technological one.

sunaookami|3 months ago

:checkmark: Added some words

:checkmark: Hashed passwords (with MD5)

:checkmark: Added <basic feature>

Your code is now production-ready! :rocket:

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I swear I'm losing my mind when Claude does this.

buu700|3 months ago

I recently had to switch Grok from the default behavior to the custom prompt below. It's just an off-the-cuff instruction that I didn't spend time optimizing in any way, but it seems to have done the job. In hindsight, that probably coincided with silent A/B testing of 4.1.

> Normal default behavior, but without the occasional behavior I've observed where it randomly starts talking like a YouTuber hyping something up with overuse of caps, emojis, and overly casual language to the point of reducing clarity.

afavour|3 months ago

Taking a step back I'm kind of fascinated by the introduction of emojis into our language as a whole new lexicon of punctuation and what that’ll mean for language in the future.

…but I’m still infuriated when I read a passage full of them.

mlindner|3 months ago

There's a reason they were a Japanese language invention because the idea of "symbols = meaning" is not something that would have likely natively happened in English, at least to a wide extent. We would have still been writing :-)

packetlost|3 months ago

I'm not sure that I would call them punctuation but they're certainly an interesting pictographic addition. I think they're great, but I too get irritated when not used judiciously.