The effect of zodiac signs on LLM response diversity
Large language models tend to collapse into a narrow set of predictable outputs when prompted multiple times with the same question – a phenomenon known as mode collapse. This matters for applications like brainstorming and creative writing where we want to sample a range of possibilities. In this note, I share results from a kitchen-table experiment: I prompted Claude models with different zodiac signs and Myers-Briggs personality types to see if persona prompts could increase output diversity. My hypothesis is that these persona types are: ...