Nils Durner's Blog Ahas, Breadcrumbs, Coding Epiphanies

Staged conversation

Peter Gostev elaborates on LinkedIn about how Google Bard includes 5 hidden chat messages at the beginning of each conversation “to get in the mood”. I found this technique helpful with GPT-4 as well, and have included a small helper tool in my OAI chat for this. My comment on LinkedIn: This can be seen as an example of few-shot prompting. I... Read more

[UPDATED] Claude Mysterious Disappointment

description: “Reflects on unexpected performance regressions in Claude 3, analyzing benchmark discrepancies, user frustrations, and potential regression causes.” layout: post title: “Claude 2.1: Mysterious Disappointment” date: 2024-01-19 last_updated: 2024-01-19 tags: [Anthropic, Claude, Bedrock, Classification, RAG] — This work is a gold mine... Read more

Chatbots Update

Particularly to aid with the upcoming events planning season, I have made some substantial updates to my OpenAI- and Anthropic-based chatbots: Export & import of the chat history Word file .docx support File download Support for Claude 2.1 Chat history export Uses for this I can think of: Save/backup your LLM session, and possi... Read more

RSA-3000 cryptography recommendation in Germany

The perceived RSA-3000 crypto mandate by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has been reported by Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG, highlighting that: 💡 a BSI speaker confirmed that this is a recommendation, not a mandate 💡 the TLS certificate of the BSI website still uses RSA-2048 as well 💡 the wording, especially across B... Read more

Anthropic Indemnification

Anthropic now provide Indemnification as well: Our Commercial Terms of Service (previously our services agreement) will enable our customers to retain ownership rights over any outputs they generate through their use of our services and protect them from copyright infringement claims. Under the updated terms, we will defend our customers fro... Read more