Making Claude sound human: the prompt was 'be dumber' and it worked
tomjohndesign · x · 2026-08-18
A user shared a funny prompt engineering discovery: trying to make Claude sound like themselves, they instructed the AI to "be dumber." Surprisingly, it worked. This suggests that models might perform too "perfectly" or "intelligently" in some contexts, and lowering the intelligence setting can produce more natural, human-like output.
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