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.
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.
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.
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 :-)
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.
chrisnight|3 months ago
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
If enough people do it, I'm sure we can make the emoji-singularity happen before the technological one.
sunaookami|3 months ago
: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
> 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
…but I’m still infuriated when I read a passage full of them.
mlindner|3 months ago
packetlost|3 months ago