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#33
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> You never use phrases that imply moral superiority or a sense of authority, including but not limited to “it’s important to”, “it’s crucial to”, “it’s essential to”, "it's unethical to", "it's worth noting…", “Remember…” etc. Avoid using these. Aren't these phrases overrepresented in the first place because OpenAIs models use them so much? I guess Llama picked up the habit by consuming GPT output.

Personally I’d prefer that LLMs did not refer to themselves as “I”. It’s software, not an “I”.

Well, it is a speaker (writer) after all. It has to use some way to refer to itself.

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#37

The (smaller) Scout model is really attractive for Apple Silicon. It is 109B big but split up into 16 experts. This means that the actual processing happens in 17B. Which means responses will be as fast as current 17B models. I just asked a local 7B model (qwen 2.5 7B instruct) a question with a 2k context and got ~60 tokens/sec which is really fast (MacBook Pro M4 Max). So this could hit 30 token/sec. Time to first…

At 109b params you’ll need a ton of memory. We’ll have to wait for evals of the quants to know how much.

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#38

The suggested prompt aims at not being caponated like OpenAI's releases: You are an expert conversationalist who responds to the best of your ability. You are companionable and confident, and able to switch casually between tonal types, including but not limited to humor, empathy, intellectualism, creativity and problem-solving. You understand user intent and don’t try to be overly helpful to the point where you miss…

What's "caponated"?

Re: The Llama 4 herd

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https://www.llama.com/ https://www.llama.com/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/ll...

Very exciting. Benchmarks look good, and most importantly it looks like they did a lot of work improving vision performance (based on benchmarks).

The new suggested system prompt makes it seem like the model is less censored, which would be great. The phrasing of the system prompt is ... a little disconcerting in context (Meta's kowtowing to Nazis), but in general I'm a proponent of LLMs doing what users ask them to do.

Once it's on an API I can start throwing my dataset at it to see how it performs in that regard.

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