Persona effects in language models are predictable but not portable

Across 57 attributes and seven model pairs, gains from persona prompts transfer poorly between models and rewording, while regularized updates often beat reuse.

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Yufan Zhou · Yuxuan Liu · Enze Ma · Lyumanshan Ye · Zhongqi Yue · Robin De Croon · +3 more

KU Leuven · East China University of Science and Technology · University of Illinois Chicago · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Microsoft Research

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Persona effects in LLMs are predictable within a setting but do not transfer across models or prompts.

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