@penguin42 It's like Bard reflected its own instructions onto the user: "listen to feedback and try to be a helpful assistant".
Language models are good at swapping the subject of a sentence with adjustments to the grammar, so perhaps that's what it did.
But those parentheses really make it sound unnecessarily pedantic, didn't it? :-)
Well, at least it didn't accuse me of being deceptive and demanded an apology