> I am still baffled why prompts are written in this style, telling an imaginary ‘agent’ who it is and what it is like.
Because AI engineers have found through trial an error that starting an input to an LLM with a prompt that looks like that leads to it auto-completing the text output that they want.
Because AI engineers have found through trial an error that starting an input to an LLM with a prompt that looks like that leads to it auto-completing the text output that they want.
It's as simple and weird as that.