"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
THE SO WHAT
The fact that a simple chat template change can flip an LLM’s self-referential behavior underscores how much control lives in prompt scaffolding, not just weights. Teams deploying assistants at scale should treat system prompts and templates as governed artifacts with versioning, review, and policy baked in.
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