cultural-prompting-via-country-naming-system-prompt TEC-0069 · proposedCultural prompting via a country-naming system prompt
State the target country in the system prompt so the model answers survey-style questions as a member of that culture; measured as reduced distance to the country's Hofstede profile.
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State the target country in the system prompt so the model answers survey-style questions as a member of that culture; measured as reduced distance to the country's Hofstede profile. Filed by the drafting stage from The American Ghost in the Machine: How language models align culturally and the effects of cultural prompting (2512.12488) with status proposed: the paper introduces or tests it, and the claim drafted from the paper is its first evidence. The paper validated it by: Hofstede-dimension distance before and after prompting for six countries across eight models; seven of eight moved closer, gains 11-22% by country, Japan and China least matched.. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.
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