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foxestoday at 2:12 AM1 replyview on HN

Are em dashes in language models particularly close to a start token or something? Somehow letting the model continue to keep outputting.


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semilintoday at 2:24 AM

I think it's mainly a matter of clarity as long embedded clauses without obvious visual delimiting can be hard to read and thus are discouraged in professional writing aiming for ease of reading from a wide audience. LLMs are trained on such a style.