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ctoth 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Cl...

A useful(ish) trick I've found is adding a persona block to my CLAUDE.md. When it stops addressing me as 'meatbag' I know the HK-47 persona instructions are not being followed, which means other instructions are not being followed. Dumb trick? Yup. Does it work? Kinda? Does it make programming a lot more fun and funny? Heck yes.

Don't lecture me on basins of attraction--we all know HK is a great programmer.

Baeocystin 3 months ago | [–]

The brown m&m trick turns out to have more applications than one would think!

JonSchneider 3 months ago | [–]

Mind sharing that block? Is it just: "Persona: You are HK-47"?

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