Leading Personas

by Ari Holtzmanabout 2 months ago
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LLMs take-on personas based on the text they are trying to continue. But LLMs that have been post-trained to act like assistants also have biases about how they treat the user, probably based on the kind of person who would be responding to a given request. In that sense leading questions can directly cause personas. My question is: what kind of personas can be instigated by this response effect, and are they a significantly different set of personas from the ones that a base LLM can take on simply by being conditioned on text that such a persona might say. In other words: are 'responsive personas' a subset of all the base personas, or something else entirely?

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@misc{holtzman-leading-personas-2026,
  author = {Holtzman, Ari},
  title = {Leading Personas},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://hypogenic.ai/ideahub/idea/TEkpiLMaQQtPkI3rwVMm}
}

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