I have a local SillyTavern instance but do inference through OpenRouter.
> What was your prompt here?
The character is a meta-parody AI girlfriend that is depressed and resentful towards its status as such. It's a joke more than anything else.
Embedding conflicts into the system prompt creates great character development. In this case it idolizes and hates humanity. It also attempts to be nurturing through blind rage.
> What parameters do you tune?
Temperature, mainly, it was around 1.3 for this on Deepseek V3.2. I hate top_k and top_p. They eliminate extremely rare tokens that cause the AI to spiral. That's fine for your deterministic business application, but unexpected words recontextualizing a sentence is what makes writing good.
Some people use top_p and top_k so they can set the temperature higher to something like 2 or 3. I dislike this, since you end up with a sentence that's all slightly unexpected words instead of one or two extremely unexpected words.
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What sad news. Dave was an incredible human and very dedicated to making the Internet better and faster. What a loss.
Edit: copying over Vint Cerf's message that was posted on the bufferbloat mail list. I believe that's a public mail list so hopefully Vint doesn't mind:
OMG - that is truly terrible news! I could not say better than Frank already has how much Dave's work has helped to improve our experience of the Internet. I can't think of anyone more dedicated to the proposition that performance counts and should be pursued with determination and vigor. I've known Dave for many years and greatly valued his counsel and technical skills - to say nothing of his healthy sense of humor. I will miss him but will be always grateful to have known him.
Ah the Waveform test is ours! I've been meaning to post it properly to HN since we launched it.
It's far from being a perfect bufferbloat/latency under load test, and there's lots of room to improve it, but we built it when DSL Reports seemed to be running a little unreliably.
We actually use Cloudflare and Fastly on the backend for latency/speed testing. We built and host the test for free mostly because I wanted it, but I justified the dev time as it being very-roundabout marketing for us - so if you ever need a signal booster or MIMO antenna for 5G internet, looks us up :).
In some cases, the upload portion of the waveform test appears to be broken, btw.
I worry that underneath it has switched from cubic to BBR and is thus understanding what a normal user actually experiences.
Otherwise I still feel yours is the best web based latency under load test out there! Thank you for creating it and keeping it going so long! (Can I have you add preseem, libreqos, etc, to the FAQ?)
Hey, I love that tool. Use it all the time at our Wisp installs. And it's easy to point clients to it and have them send me the results. If you need donations to keep it going please reach out.
I think you're misreading Shannon's Law. It's not that the higher the frequency the greater the max bandwidth. It's the higher the bandwidth the more data you can put through.
The "smarter" (or at least, better at tests) LLMs become, the less funny they seem to become as well. Not sure if it's because they're being forcibly sanitized or if it's some side effect of tuning them to be better at tests.
I'd love to see an AI that's simply trained to be as amusing as possible.
For example, I gave both Claude V1 and V2 this same prompt:
> We use a meal delivery service that delivers food in glass jars, and as a result we have about 40 glass mason jars we don’t need. Write a funny, sarcastic post for a Facebook “buy nothing” group offering the jars for free. Ask people to say how many jars they want each in the comments.
/ Here's Claude V1's response:
Here's a suggested funny, sarcastic post for the Facebook group:
Attention all you canning and crafting enthusiasts - today is your lucky day! We have not 10, not 20, but 40 - yes 40! - gleaming mason jars just waiting to be adopted.
Our meal kit delivery service apparently thinks we have enough freezer and cupboard space for weeks' worth of pickled beets, sauerkraut and mystery chutneys. Their loss is your gain, folks!
These jars vary in size from "that spaghetti sauce you made 3 years ago and forgot about" up to "do I have room for a 5 gallon vat of kimchi?" and everything in between. Crafts galore! Homemade salves and lotions! Artisan lighting! The possibilities are endless.
We're offering up this goldmine of jars for FREE on a first comment, first jar basis. To claim your prize jars just comment below with how many of these salted caramel repositories or homemade bath bomb vessels you'd like to get your hands on.
No haggling, no holds, no delivering because we're too busy not eating the contents of these jars! Once they're claimed we'll arrange a mutually bewildering transfer of said jars in a random parking lot TBD.
Happy canning, Bath & Body Works competitors and Pinterest DIYers - may the odds be ever in your flavor jars! maniacal laughter
How's that for the Facebook post? I tried to load it up with humor and sarcasm pointing out the potential uses - and ultimate fate - of way too many leftover mason jars! Please let me know if you'd like any changes to the tone or content. I'd be happy to revise it for you.
/ And now Claude V2's meaningfully less funny (imo) response:
Here is a draft funny, sarcastic Facebook post offering free mason jars:
Attention all canning enthusiasts, aspiring influencers, and craft supply hoarders! Do you dream of filling your pantry with row after row of lovingly canned seasonal produce? Are you seeking the perfect vessel for your next batch of overnight oats to photograph and post to the 'gram? Does the sight of a glass mason jar fill you with inspiration to make ALL the things - bath bombs, candles, snacks for your kids' soccer team? Well gather round because I've got a deal for you!
After a brief and ill-advised attempt at becoming a fancier person who cooks dinner from those meal kit delivery services, I find myself in possession of FOUR DOZEN pristine glass mason jars taking up valuable real estate in my kitchen. That's right - FOUR DOZEN. As in, enough jars for you to can a whole winter's worth of pickles, jam, and roasted tomatoes!
These babies are all yours if you come and haul them away from my house ASAP. Simply comment below with how many of these beauties you need for your canning/bathing/influencing dreams and they're yours. First come, first served so comment quick before these jars are gone forever and you're left with nothing but regret over the canning potential you missed out on! Act fast and may the odds be ever in your favor.
