Stop Cheating! I use an LLM for a critic. That’s fine. However, when I ask it a question about my work, it wants to do m...

Stop Cheating! I use an LLM for a critic. That’s fine. However, when I ask it a question about my work, it wants to do more than just answering. It offers:suggestions on how to organize my work,language it thinks is better than mine, andtopics or next steps it “thinks” I want to do next.All of These are CheatingI’m working on books and essays, and checking the argument structure, dramatic arc, and line-by-line logic. If I want a synonym for herpetology, I’ll darn well ask.Anything I publish has to meet normal standards of professionalism, like no plagiarism. Exactly as when writing an essay in university, I need to follow the classic set of “academic integrity” rules.That means I needed to invent prompts to shut the “helpfulness” up.RecursionTo get a good, reusable prompt, first ask the LLM what it would say. I asked it about checking sentence logic for a project of mine. Consider it a prompt for “marking the homework I just handed in (:-))”It replied: Here’s a ready-to-use prompt temp...