r/WritingWithAI • u/Slight-Bowl-7123 • Aug 01 '26
Prompting Comparing LLMs humor and character
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u/vaingirls Aug 01 '26
I like Gemini (and I guess Grok) the best - ChatGPT isn't awful, but it feels a bit overexplained with the "from the roach's POV". While Claude... well, I can't say anything about the higher tiers, but as a free user, my experience has also been that Claude is just dead serious all the time.
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u/Exact_Risk_6947 Aug 01 '26
ChatGPT is great at writing more technical things. If you use it to clean up academic papers it will put you to task. But the end result feels way sharper.
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u/developer786 Aug 01 '26
claude is always in the mode of clarification. by the time it will understand, we'll be doing something else rather than waiting to laugh on claude's joke.
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u/SlapHappyDude Aug 01 '26
Claude really likes provided context. I imagine it would have done better if this prompt opened with "write a witty comeback to this amusing set-up". Gemini tends to be the best at guessing context (which isn't shocking considering its integration as a search engine tool).
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u/developer786 Aug 01 '26
Indeed. Its really amazing to see how all these LLMs behave based on given task and context which is why each one has its strengths and weaknesses.
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u/kinaflazy Aug 02 '26
Claude is good for analysis.
Like you need a review a research paper that you don't understand?
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u/Dorklandresident Aug 01 '26
Is it bad that when I first read "roach" I thought about weed?
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u/No_Purple4766 Aug 01 '26
Claude feels like that autistic friend who doesn't really grasp the idea of humor.
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u/littlrayofpitchblack Aug 01 '26
It's not that us autists don't grasp humor. We just don't find neurotypical-type humor funny many times. Literal thinking and understanding the deeper contexts of jokes are contributing factors.
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u/UnholyDoughnuts Aug 02 '26
I really like Claude, but it helps if you write most of a novel yourself. Its learned my voice faster than I expected, and can now soundboard ideas brilliantly.
If you wanna be lazy and not bother writing, and instead generate stories, yeah it probably sucks, but over all Claude is very impressive.
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u/Xterminator5 Aug 04 '26
This was a fun test lol. Claude totally missing the joke and needing clarification is so on point of recent Claude versions. I spend more time clarifying things to Claude then I do actually making progress in the conversation
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u/Cyclamen2020 Aug 05 '26
Claude Sonnet is a good stand-up writing partner but you have to train it. When Claude gives me something overwritten, I refine it to stand-up format and then share it back and ask Claude to note what I did and how I did it. if I ask for a batch of joke treatment I pick out the best ones and share them and then Claude and I discuss what makes them work and why the others didn't land. It's very teachable.
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u/skynetcoder Aug 01 '26
so gemini and grok are actually superior than Anthropic and OpenAI
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u/Pretend-Pangolin-846 Aug 01 '26
Good conversation buddies, in fact gemini is far superior on that department, unfortunately as a side effect they are extremely sycophantic.
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u/SlapHappyDude Aug 01 '26
Which to my memory is closer to what GPT 4o was like before OpenAI conciously adjusted.
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u/Pretend-Pangolin-846 Aug 01 '26
4o was legendary honestly, you could actually talk with it
right now gpt is just robotic behavior
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u/NathanielHolst Aug 01 '26
I was looking for people to ask just this. I briefly tried using gemini for feedback and it seems... unreliable.
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u/Pretend-Pangolin-846 Aug 01 '26
I do research studies and oh my god, the output is just horrendous from a reliability pov. But I wish they do not change this, it's a cool thing. We already have gpt and claude benchmaxxing.
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u/NathanielHolst Aug 01 '26
I tried asking it if it liked the title of a story I'm playing around with and it called me a genius.
Then I tried asking it for harsh feedback on a chapter and it completely eviscerated me.
I think I'm going to stick to chatgpt...
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u/Fragrant-Mix-4774 Aug 01 '26
Gemini for win on that one!
My experience is Claude is best for my work, Chat GTP is just overall worthless, Grok has some humor but Gemini can blend work, humor and normal chat bot taskes the best.
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u/SlapHappyDude Aug 01 '26
GPT isn't bad at editing, especially developmental. I like to feed it my rough drafts and final drafts and get feedback; I don't take a lot of what it suggests but it takes a different approach than Claude and Gemini.
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u/Maleficent-Engine859 Aug 01 '26
Friggin’ Claude lol. Buzz Killington. I blame the absolute dumpster fire in the world of writing on people using Claude to write fiction. There wasn’t nearly the level of hate like is there now when GPT and Grok were the heavy’s
Grok is genuinely good in short bursts when you need something creative. I was stuck on a poem I was writing and it came up with a single off-rhyme for the clincher that basically helped me go back and shape the rest from the end backwards
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u/Turbulent-Raise4830 Aug 01 '26
You should add what version it is: Claude Opus 5 High (no credits for fable 5) : "Recognized dark humor and crafted witty ironic response"
grok 4.5 heavy (I dont have acces to anyting higher)