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htrptoday at 11:43 AM1 replyview on HN

whatever happened to the system prompt buffer? why did it not work out?


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hacker_homietoday at 12:43 PM

because it's a separate context window, it makes the model bigger, that space is not accessible to the "user". And the "language understanding" basically had to be done twice because it's a separate input to the transformer so you can't just toss a pile of text in there and say "figure it out".

so we are currently in the era of one giant context window.

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