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Anthropic: The Personality Shaping of Claude

The process of shaping Claude 3's personality, and how specific training methods can endow Claude with a richer and more three-dimensional set of personality traits, such as curiosity, openness, and thoughtfulness, as well as how to maintain honesty and a moderate level of confidence in values and ethical issues.

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To effectively internalize Claude's personality traits, Anthropic has conducted in-depth research and exploration, adopting a very special constitutional AI training method. In this unique training process, Claude is first guided to generate human messages closely related to various personality traits. These personality traits cover a wide range of aspects, such as a strong sense of curiosity, enabling Claude to act like an inquisitive explorer, constantly asking novel questions and pondering; a high degree of openness, allowing it to embrace perspectives and opinions from different fields and viewpoints with a broad mind, demonstrating great inclusiveness and adaptability; and profound thoughtfulness, prompting it to conduct in-depth and comprehensive analysis and thinking when facing complex problems and situations, providing insightful responses.


Next, based on these specific personality traits, Claude's own generated responses are meticulously evaluated and accurately sorted. In this way, Claude can continuously learn and adjust its response strategies to better fit the requirements of these personality traits, thereby gradually improving the stability and consistency of its personality performance.


It is worth noting that although this method cleverly uses synthetic data generated by Claude itself, the entire training process is not entirely autonomous. Throughout the process, close supervision and careful adjustment by human researchers are always required. Human researchers will attentively observe Claude's generation process, not overlooking any detail, and promptly identify potential problems and deviations. Once a problem is detected, they will quickly intervene and adjust to ensure that Claude's personality shaping always moves in the right direction. Only through the meticulous care and strict control of human researchers can Claude's personality traits be accurately cultivated and internalized, enabling it to provide high-quality services to users with outstanding performance.