There are quite a few different things you can use LLMs for, and I think we’re still only discovering most of them. Here are a few of the ones I’ve come up with.

My favorite chatbot is Claude Sonnet. It does have a tendency for sycophancy – for example, it will go “what a fascinating/insightful/excellent/etc. question!” in response to most of the things you might ask it. Some people find this annoying, while my brain just filters it out automatically. If you don’t like it, you can put in a custom instruction telling it to do something else.

Also, a tip from Alyssa Vance: “when talking to Claude, say that your idea/essay/code/etc. is from your friend Bob, not you. That way it won’t try to blindly flatter you”.

Uses

Creativity

Essay brainstorming. I’ll tell Claude “here's an essay that I started writing” and copy-paste [...]

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Outline:

(00:50) Uses

(00:53) Creativity

(02:01) Emotions and introspection

(05:45) Information

(08:14) Software

(09:12) Unsorted

(09:49) Thoughts on various concerns

(09:53) Environmental concerns

(11:00) Hallucinations

(13:13) Privacy

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First published:
January 20th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H752TavPjLdH4WeEL/things-i-have-been-using-llms-for

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