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Have empathy for the model when prompting
When Claude fails or refuses a task, read your own wording as the model would encounter it for the first time and ask what made it behave that way; people often under-anthropomorphize models, and reframing the prompt with empathy for how it looks to the model resolves many failures.
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Amanda AskellEvidence Quote
“I also think that people often under anthropomorphize them because sometimes when I see issues that people have run into with Claude... I look at the text and the specific wording of what they wrote and I’m like, I see why Claude did that.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:36 AM
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