In everyday conversations, humans can take on different roles and adapt their vocabulary to their chosen roles. We explore whether LLMs can take on, that is impersonate, different roles when they generate text in-context. We ask LLMs to assume different personas before solving vision and language tasks. We do this by prefixing the prompt with a persona that is associated either with a social identity or domain expertise. In a multi-armed bandit task, we find that LLMs pretending to be children of different ages recover human-like developmental stages of exploration.

Reveals Large Language Models' Strengths and Biases In this supplementary materials we show additional results mentioned in the main paper. First, we give experimental details in Section A. Next, we show results for Llama 2 on the bandit task in Section B. Afterwards, we show in Section C.1 additional quantitative results for the expertise-based Section D provides additional details about the vision and language tasks. For more details on the code please refer to the README.md Section A.1) and the amount of compute required to reproduce our experiments (Section Section A.2) A.1 Prompt variations generated by meta-prompting Work done whilst visiting University of Tübingen 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023). For all Vicuna-13B based experiments (bandit, reasoning and vision) we used a single Nvidia A100-40GB GPU.

In everyday conversations, humans can take on different roles and adapt their vocabulary to their chosen roles. We explore whether LLMs can take on, that is impersonate, different roles when they generate text in-context. We ask LLMs to assume different personas before solving vision and language tasks. We do this by prefixing the prompt with a persona that is associated either with a social identity or domain expertise. In a multi-armed bandit task, we find that LLMs pretending to be children of different ages recover human-like developmental stages of exploration.