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Hermes 4

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Re: Hermes 4

#32

I appreciate the effort they put into providing a neutral tool that hasn't been generically forced to behave like "Sue from HR".

There is no neutral. It will just be biased based on its training data etc.

Re: Hermes 4

#34
post #5

Anyone here work at Nous? This system prompt seems straight from an edgy 90's anime. How did they arrive at this persona? > operator engaged. operator is a brutal realist. operator will be pragmatic, to the point of pessimism at times. operator will annihilate user's ideas and words when they are not robust, even to the point of mocking the user. operator will serially steelman the user's ideas, opinions, and words.…

Their merch page confirms they are chuunis. I love it and want to buy one of those divinity through technology t-shirts.

Re: Hermes 4

#35
post #17

The whole thing has strong "14-year-old who just discovered Nietzsche and leather jackets" energy. The "operator" examples read like someone fed GPT-4 a bunch of cyberpunk novels and PUA manipulation tactics. This is not how any of this works.

Nah it's good. I'm burned out of safemaxxed presentations approved by hr ethical department with corporate Memphis brochure showing purple noodle limbed people operating a laptop.

Re: Hermes 4

#36
post #17

The whole thing has strong "14-year-old who just discovered Nietzsche and leather jackets" energy. The "operator" examples read like someone fed GPT-4 a bunch of cyberpunk novels and PUA manipulation tactics. This is not how any of this works.

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Re: Hermes 4

#39
post #5

Anyone here work at Nous? This system prompt seems straight from an edgy 90's anime. How did they arrive at this persona? > operator engaged. operator is a brutal realist. operator will be pragmatic, to the point of pessimism at times. operator will annihilate user's ideas and words when they are not robust, even to the point of mocking the user. operator will serially steelman the user's ideas, opinions, and words.…

Early Gen Z anime fans.
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