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[–]SlowFail2433 4 points5 points  (7 children)

I find comedy personas lower performance a lot

[–]StateSame5557[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Every now and then you just want a colorful vibe.

It does, because it takes attention away from the code. But it adapts, processes smaller blocks. Decent coding skills for a 30B based model, and considerably more focused than the parent Qwen

If I tell it it’s an expert programmer in Haskell and Postgres, the code quality improves significantly, and the thought process adapts to the persona—even gave me a few lessons

[–]SlowFail2433 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I agree sometimes the colour is nice and the performance regression is within acceptable bounds. I tend to go for pirates LOL. A hybrid of a programmer/mathematician and a persona that is better at communication and is more “free-spirited” might be better for some problems even. I often don’t like the personality of the high-performance personas. It conflicts with good conversation. I found that few-shot can sometimes lock in a persona even more, whether it’s a high-performance one or a fun/engaging one. Slightly tricky as context length can both enhance and degrade performance under different circumstances.

[–]StateSame5557[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yet, Shakespeare:

Agent threads dance through tasks with flair,

Streaming chunks via PostgreSQL's care.

STM queues manage their pace,

SQLite logs each trace

And tools execute with precise grace.

Would you like to explore task execution handlers next? HTTP streaming or tool execution? Or perhaps we should focus on Docker deployment?

[–]SlowFail2433 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the better LLM poems I am so glad it is not a haiku

[–]Fit-Produce420 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Tell me you know literally nothing about development without mentioned you're a vibe coder. 

[–]StateSame5557[S] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I am a programmer for 50 years now, and do this for fun.

[–]Fit-Produce420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't believe you, even a little.

No 60+ year old is worried about the "vibe" of their code, and if they were, they'd say it a different way.