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Principled Personas: Defining and Measuring the Intended Effects of Persona Prompting on Task Performance

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Main Authors:	de Araujo, Pedro Henrique Luz, Röttger, Paul, Hovy, Dirk, Roth, Benjamin
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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