I think of this as ~writing a story in which the agent helps us achieve our goals.
The prompters don't tell the LLM stories because they think "someone" is in there, but because they need to write the LLM into the place it can help them from before the "predict the next token" part is terribly useful.
The prompters don't tell the LLM stories because they think "someone" is in there, but because they need to write the LLM into the place it can help them from before the "predict the next token" part is terribly useful.