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When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

As of 14 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 16 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2311.10054.

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Online Prompt Selection for Program Synthesis cites this paper.

Online Prompt Selection for Program Synthesis When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 32

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Do as We Do, Not as You Think: the Conformity of Large Language Models cites this paper.

Do as We Do, Not as You Think: the Conformity of Large Language Models When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 52

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AiRacleX: Automated Detection of Price Oracle Manipulations via LLM-Driven Knowledge Mining and Prompt Generation cites this paper.

AiRacleX: Automated Detection of Price Oracle Manipulations via LLM-Driven Knowledge Mining and Prompt Generation When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 41

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IHEval: Evaluating Language Models on Following the Instruction Hierarchy cites this paper.

IHEval: Evaluating Language Models on Following the Instruction Hierarchy When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 41

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Position is Power: System Prompts as a Mechanism of Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) cites this paper.

Position is Power: System Prompts as a Mechanism of Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 104

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Are Economists Always More Introverted? Analyzing Consistency in Persona-Assigned LLMs cites this paper.

Are Economists Always More Introverted? Analyzing Consistency in Persona-Assigned LLMs When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 33

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Teaching Astronomy with Large Language Models cites this paper.

Teaching Astronomy with Large Language Models When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 61

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Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering of LLMs, for the Creation of Multi-Agent AI for Addressing Sustainable Protein Production Challenges cites this paper.

Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering of LLMs, for the Creation of Multi-Agent AI for Addressing Sustainable Protein Production Challenges When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 46

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Exploring LLM Capabilities in Extracting DCAT-Compatible Metadata for Data Cataloging cites this paper.

Exploring LLM Capabilities in Extracting DCAT-Compatible Metadata for Data Cataloging When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 64

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An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Python Packages and Their Detection cites this paper.

An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Python Packages and Their Detection When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 76

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Emotionally-Aware Agents for Dispute Resolution cites this paper.

Emotionally-Aware Agents for Dispute Resolution When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 59

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The Prompt Engineering Report Distilled: Quick Start Guide for Life Sciences cites this paper.

The Prompt Engineering Report Distilled: Quick Start Guide for Life Sciences When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 146

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The Prompt Engineering Report Distilled: Quick Start Guide for Life Sciences cites this paper.

Reference 147

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Point of Order: Action-Aware LLM Persona Modeling for Data-Grounded Civic Deliberation cites this paper.

Point of Order: Action-Aware LLM Persona Modeling for Data-Grounded Civic Deliberation When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 20

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Behavior-Adaptive Conversational Agents: Toward a Fluid Personality Framework cites this paper.

Behavior-Adaptive Conversational Agents: Toward a Fluid Personality Framework When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 17

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Exposure is not manifestation: measurement target and output resolution jointly determine which behavioural-faithfulness evaluator wins cites this paper.

Exposure is not manifestation: measurement target and output resolution jointly determine which behavioural-faithfulness evaluator wins When "A Helpful Assistant" Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models

Reference 63

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