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What is the secret sauce Claude has and why hasn't anyone replicated it?

I've noticed something about Claude from talking to it. It's very very distinct in its talking style, much more of an individual than some other LLMs I know. I tried feeding that exact same system prompt Sonnet 4.5 to Qwen3.5 27B and it didn't change how it acted, so I ruled out the system prompt do

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I've noticed something about Claude from talking to it. It's very very distinct in its talking style, much more of an individual than some other LLMs I know. I tried feeding that exact same system prompt Sonnet 4.5 to Qwen3.5 27B and it didn't change how it acted, so I ruled out the system prompt do