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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But because the system prompt is part of the context, it figures into the estimation of the most likely next token. So in general putting this kind of stuff in the system prompt does change how well it works.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

of course. but the larger the context grows the less it affects the output. there is some ways around this, like moving the system prompt last in the context before every answer, but the very existence of the system prompt to begin with is a hack. what's really needed is a functional rules-based pre- and post-filtering system for a chatbox to be safe. personally i think the chatbox "style" has played out its role and is living on as a gimmick. actual tooling built with language models is stuff like LSP servers and accessibility software, and that needs rigid configuration.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I tend to agree.