# Amanda Askell

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Real Alpha has cut one moment of Amanda Askell (Head of personality alignment, Anthropic) talking, from an interview on Lex Fridman Podcast published Nov 11, 2024.

- Role: Head of personality alignment, Anthropic
- About: Leads Anthropic's personality alignment team, shaping Claude's character; co-authored the GPT-3 paper at OpenAI.
- Company: [Anthropic](https://realalpha.app/companies/#anthropic)
- On X: https://x.com/AmandaAskell

## What Amanda Askell said

- [Prompt iteration matters most when optimizing the final few percent](https://realalpha.app/s/prompt-iteration-matters-most-when-optimizing-the-final-few/)
  Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 11, 2024 · 6 min
  > “I think that prompting actually only really becomes relevant when you're really trying to eke out the top like two percent of model performance” — Amanda Askell · [3:10:08](https://realalpha.app/v/ugvHCXCOmm4/?t=11408)

## The episode

- [Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452](https://realalpha.app/v/ugvHCXCOmm4/) · Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 11, 2024