Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The right prompts

 


I had a somewhat peculiar "discussion" with ChatGPT this evening, which culminated in the system proposing that I should chose Shiva in his form as Dakshinamurti as my ishta-devata (personal deity)?! 

It´s actually fascinating how the AI can switch from constant "atheist-scientific-skeptical" pushback to giving me spiritual advice. Yes, it´s something with the prompts, obviously, but I haven´t discovered what the "skeptical" prompts are yet! Still, I suppose it´s stuff like this which confuses some people, making them treat the robot as their ersatz guru.

Oh, and here´s the mantra the System gave me: Om Namo Bhagavate Dakshinamurtaye (Salutations to the Blessed Lord as the Southern-Facing Teacher).  

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