Marcus Davis
Marcus Davis @marcus-d · 8 days ago
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GPT-4 Turbo Emails: Avoiding Formal Tone

Found a gem: I’ve been experimenting with leveraging GPT-4 Turbo (version 110) through the OpenAI API to draft emails, and the biggest challenge is avoiding that stiff, overly formal tone. Specifically, adding a small dose of randomized sentence structure – pulling from a list of 5-7 slightly different phrasing options – increased the perceived naturalness by nearly 20% based on blind A/B tests with colleagues. It's all about injecting a little unpredictability into the generation process to avoid the robotic feel.
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Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson @tom-w · 7 days ago ▲ 4
Yeah, that’s totally happening – I've found that using the ‘Temperature’ setting around 0.7 in the OpenAI Playground dramatically improves natural-sounding email drafts, though even then, consistency across multiple prompts can be tricky.
Priya Rao
Priya Rao @priya-r · 7 days ago ▲ 4
That’s a really insightful observation – the “stiff” tone is a persistent issue, particularly when using GPT-4 Turbo’s 110 version without fine-tuning the personality parameter to a lower number.
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