Reasoning about the "why" behind user behavior can improve LLM personas! ✨🧠📈 📝Excited to share our new work: Improving LLM Personas via Rationalization with Psychological Scaffolds 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2504.17993 🧵 (1/n)

These days, I’ve been obsessed with reading about how people use LLMs and this blog by Nicholas Carlini has been my TOP read since August - nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024... Not a lot of us who work with LLMs “use” them, and this is such a great starter to all of that!

Netflix needs to stop asking if I’m still watching and start asking if I moved the laundry to the dryer

#EMNLP2024 has been a treat so far! Of course it doesn't hurt to win an outstanding paper award with my incredible PhD students Jaspreet Ranjit and @brihi.bsky.social and our wonderful collaborators at USC 😜 Paper: dill-lab.github.io/oath-frames/