Why do people use “you” in a system prompt? Is that correct for openai models?
SP is usually a preface for a dialog in local models, e.g.:
This is a conversation between A and User. A is X and Y and tends to Z. User knows H and J, also aware of KL. They know each other well.
A: Hi.
What this is as a whole is a document/protocol where A talks with User. You can read it as a novel or a meeting protocol and make sense of it. If you put “you” into this preface, it makes no semantic sense and the whole document now reads as a novel which starts by shouting something at its reader and then going to a dialog.
SP is usually a preface for a dialog in local models, e.g.:
What this is as a whole is a document/protocol where A talks with User. You can read it as a novel or a meeting protocol and make sense of it. If you put “you” into this preface, it makes no semantic sense and the whole document now reads as a novel which starts by shouting something at its reader and then going to a dialog.