> > Why are you handwaving things away though? I've got you on max effort. I even patched the system prompts to reduce this.
In my experience, prompts like this one, which 1) ask for a reason behind an answer (when the model won't actually be able to provide one), 2) are somewhat standoff-ish, don't work well at all. You'll just have the model go the other way.
What works much better is to tell the model to take a step back and re-evaluate. Sometimes it also helps to explicitly ask it to look at things from a different angle XYZ, in other words, to add some entropy to get it away from the local optimum it's currently at.
In my experience, prompts like this one, which 1) ask for a reason behind an answer (when the model won't actually be able to provide one), 2) are somewhat standoff-ish, don't work well at all. You'll just have the model go the other way.
What works much better is to tell the model to take a step back and re-evaluate. Sometimes it also helps to explicitly ask it to look at things from a different angle XYZ, in other words, to add some entropy to get it away from the local optimum it's currently at.