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r/LocalLLaMA · u/gaviniboom · 18d ago

Seeing how differently people prompt LLMs is funny

So my brother and I both use LLMs for coding. I've started using a local GLM 5.3 Flash instance - q4 qat. My brother uses GPT-6-Astra as his daily driver.

He has mentioned repeatedly to me that his approach is to berate the AI whenever it makes a mistake so that it actually does what he wants it to. This involves a lot of swearing and "are you an idiot!?" to GPT 6 Astra.

Meanwhile I'm here looking at a q4 quant of GLM 5.3 Flash going "aww it's dumb in some ways but it's trying its best, oh it did something!" and being autistically specific with my requests and asking a lot of questions. Yes, I am autistic, so I have learned to communicate with precision, which oddly makes talking to small LLMs easier.

It's so funny imagining him berating a giant model in the other room while I'm here petting a tiny one.

What are yall's prompting styles and what is your main LLM that made you this way?

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