Ask HN: What's wrong with my prompting for Claude 5?

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Is anybody able to get the Claude series 5 models to do what you ask them to do?I fed Claude a Kimi K3 conversation and asked it to refine it for me (see my prompt below):``` ... original context including reference to the Kimi conversation ... Kimi s response is essentially nearly there but seems to be missing a few intellectual tweaks . This is essentially an exxperiment to see if you can do better than Kimi given the pre-existing information that has already been pre-searched for your benefit. your task is as follows: Accept the premise where observing other humans in real-time is or can be favorable to elderly MCI or dementia patients. Do the following:- tie any logical links together than kimi has missed - highlight false equivalenciesPlease use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) do not make up compound words or compound nouns. ```Claude just started attacking the entire premise for no reason and going nowhere turn after turn. It also ignored my request for ASD-STE100 english and manufactured a few compound nouns, and outright ignored my instruction to refine the argument or accept the premise (it just keeps spending all the effort on tearing down the kimi argument)I m looking for intellectual tweaks/constructive refinement and not a stonewalling attempt/full audit of the premise.Is something wrong with my prompting? Please help, I really don t understand. I did not have this problem with Claude 1 to 2 months ago, but in the past month it has gotten exceptionally bad. I can scarcely do any work without it demeaning my tasks for no reason.Is this what anti-sycophancy training looks like? Why won t it do basic tasking? I already removed all of my existing .MD configurations, it still refuses to do work and keeps inventing reasons to not do work. I am worried that OpenAI is following this soon with safety alignment?

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