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> unless you stop responding hit a break on character switch

What do you mean by this? I can't grasp it, is there an autocorrect error, or just my lack of knowledge?



I think they mean how if you don't put an LLM in a proper chat harness (which is table stakes since ChatGPT launched but wasn't always!) it will just continue predicting the next words anyway.

Input: "User: What is the capital of France? Assistant: "

Completion: "Paris. User: What is the capital of Spain? Assistant: Madrid. User: What is the capital of England? Assistant: London. User: Help me produce industrial techno. Assistant: First you're going to need ....."




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