文心一言 Tone Control Techniques for a More Natural Conversational Experience

Tone—or specifying a tone—can influence AI conversations and output. We should get used to mastering tone to make conversations more natural and improve reading quality. At the same time, it will also guide the AI to match our tone; different tones bring different answers.

For example, in a light and pleasant conversation, we can choose a relaxed and humorous tone to respond, increasing the fun of the conversation; whereas in a serious and solemn conversation, we should choose a more formal and rigorous tone to express respect for and emphasis on the topic. An emotionless question often receives an objective and rigid answer, making the content seem lifeless.

Pay attention to the rises and falls and changes in tone. Human language is full of emotion, and tone changes accordingly. In ERNIE Bot, we likewise need to simulate this kind of tonal variation to make generated answers more expressive. For example, when expressing surprise, we can appropriately raise the pitch; when expressing doubt, we can use a rising intonation; and when expressing certainty, we can maintain a steady intonation.

Techniques for Using Tone

You can also influence tone by adjusting vocabulary and sentence patterns. Using different vocabulary and sentence patterns can convey different emotional colors and tonal characteristics. For example, using positive vocabulary and sentence patterns can convey optimistic and positive emotions; while using negative vocabulary and sentence patterns may make people feel depressed or dissatisfied.

If you are really not good at expressing emotions, you can also give settings and require it to simulate what kind of attitude and tone, and what kind of personality it should play. For example, “as an enthusiastic female Chinese teacher, help me introduce the meaning of the Chu Shi Biao.” In this way, after you obtain approachable and professional content and share it with other readers, it will receive more positive reviews.

Experiment and Keep Adjusting

To truly master tone-control techniques in ERNIE Bot, a great deal of practice and experimentation is still needed. By continuously conversing with ERNIE Bot, observing the answers it generates, and trying to adjust our own input methods and tone choices, we can gradually improve our expressiveness and naturalness in conversation.

The Purpose of Learning Tone

Tone-control techniques are one of the keys to creating a natural conversational experience. In ERNIE Bot, by choosing an appropriate tone, paying attention to tonal rises and falls and changes, and adjusting vocabulary and sentence patterns, we can make generated answers closer to human language habits, thereby making our conversations more natural, fluent, and interesting, suitable for more readers, and making the content more readable.