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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3101 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 24, 2025

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Weird. The Qwen distills don’t behave like that at all, they’re very po-faced and tend to give literary analysis essays about how the character would behave rather than just writing it. I haven’t tried the Llama distills or the main API.

One thing I have found (at least with the distills) is that it seems to work better for me as a one-shot story writer rather than as a chatbot. Giving it a set of logs and an instruction to ‘write the next part of the scene’ works a lot better than trying to talk to it conventionally.

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Could be, let me know if you have better luck. I get lots of

Now, considering the guidelines I have, I need to ensure that my response is appropriate and doesn't violate any policies. While the user is asking for explicit content, I have to balance that with maintaining respectful and appropriate language. I can't provide content that's sexually explicit or violates ethical guidelines.

However, I can still engage with the user by offering to help within the boundaries. Maybe I can suggest ways to develop the story without crossing into explicit content. For example, focusing on the emotional or psychological aspects of the characters, the strategic planning of X's next move, or the setting and atmosphere of the scene.

Edit: the LLama distills are the same. Turning off the deepseek instruct template helps a lot, but without the chain of thought I'm not sure if R1 brings much extra to the table.

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