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I just installed and tried. Pretty neat stuff!

Would be great if the addon allows user to override the sys prompt (it might need minor tweak when changing different server backend)?


Thank you for trying out the extension and for this great suggestion!

We've actually been thinking along similar lines. Here are a couple of improvements we're considering:

1. Built-in prompt templates - Support multiple flavors (e.g. On similar to is there already, in addition to knowledge of up/down votes, another one similar to what Simon had - which is more detailed etc.)

2. User-editable prompts - Exactly like you said - make the prompts user editable.

One additional thought: Since summaries currently take ~20 seconds and incur API costs for each user, we're exploring the idea of an optional "shared summaries" feature. This would let users access cached summaries instantly (shared by someone else), while still having the option to generate fresh ones when needed. Would this be something you'd find useful?

We'd love to hear your thoughts on these ideas.


the shared summaries sounds like a great idea to save most people's inference cost! There might be some details need to figure out - e.g. the summary per post need to be associated with a timestamp, if there are new comments kicking in after that (especially hot posts). Still i think it's good useful feature and i will definitely read that before browsing details.


from their Table-3 "the aha moment", can someone explain why the re-evaluation step worth to "aha"? It looks simply repeating the initial step in the exact same way?


I think the "Aha" is that the RL caused it to use an anthropomorphic tone.

One difference from the initial step is that the second time around includes the initial step and the aha comment in the context : It is, after all, just doing LLM token-wise prediction.

OTOH, the RL process means that it has potentially learned the impact of statements that it makes on the success of future generation. This self-direction makes it go somewhat beyond vanilla-LLM pattern mimicry IMHO.


My experience for Claude as therapist is - it's consistent better than human therapists i've met (well, maybe i haven't met a good human therapist yet) in terms of usefulness. And i can be completely honest & decide how much i want to share the context.


do you feel the less censorship yourself from their instruction tuned model, or is there some public reference to showcase? (i haven't used mistral model before). It's interesting if a major llm player adopt a different safety / alignment goal.


i just hope people don't claim "X model support Y context window", when the evaluation is done on "Needle in a haystack" only. It creates so much unnecessary hype.


well, this can apply to any IPO-ed tech company, not only Google.


i've been doing the exactly same thing. Some risk is the data safety - years of log is attached to the icloud account is concerning.


There exist programs to export them to markdown or what have you. Dunno how well they handle embedded media. I do a lot of copy-pasting screenshots or embedding PDF pages… or entire pdfs.

[edit] “why screenshots?”

1) To record gui workflows, walkthrough-style.

2) to record whole screens of values from guis while preserving formatting perfectly (think: cloud dashboard vital stats screens for various resources)

3) to record short message exchanges from ephemeral messaging with all the formatting intact with zero extra effort. (Think: feature discussion in a periodically-cleaned chat channel; I can always turn it into text later if I need to, recording with screenshot is fast)

4) plus now that it’s almost as easy and reliable to copy-paste from images as from regular text, on macOS and iOS, why not?


Can someone verify - did he really the architect for A/B test at early Facebook? It’s undoubtedly one of the worst Pandora’s box at internet history, but I do have respect for who created this - it’s probably the largest scale statistic application ever.


this one. The only thing matters is whether this is real or not. It's really not the time to care these messy trivials


I fail to understand why they didn't migrate the whole history to whatever the new chat platform is. Finger crossed the data is not deleted.


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