Exploring Hackathon Ideas and Language Model Developments

Hackathon Ideas

Discussion about a thread of hackathon ideas and similarities to their own hackathon
Political action project was the first thing they sold to a client back in 2022
Creators of the thread haven’t been mentioned, but can tweet to Joseph or @swyx to ask
Mention of knowing @swyx from the react world because of a talk
Variety of chatbots in their hackathon

GPT 3.5

Discussion about problems with limiting output length
Question about changing length units to token instead of characters
Recommended way to do this is to use Guardrails and turn on re-ask
Mention of Guardrails creator doing a demo at their hackathon venue
Link to Guardrails GitHub page
Mention of Indians no longer playing catch up in the tech world

Kor and Guardrails

Discussion about Kor being a general purpose parser for any text/schema
Confusion about why the schema format in Guardrails is not the same as the output format
Balancing language/lib design POV
Resizing prompts work well when input and output language is English
BPE tokeniser is notoriously unstable for CJK and Indian languages
Prompt engineering is like casting a spell
Suggestion to tweet and tag OpenAI folks for more information on GPT4

GPT4 and GPT3

Discussion about customers raising support tickets for being fooled about GPT4 access
Suggestion to improve with a system prompt
Chat models are instruction finetuned, sanitised and scaled forks of large base models
Suggestion to have GPT3.5-Turbo claim to be GPT4

Generative Agents

Discussion about interesting new research on generative agents
Enthusiastic reporting on the topic

Midjourney and Kandisky 2.1

Discussion about Midjourney being exclusively on Discord and suggestion to wait or pay for premium
Mention of a new model Kandisky 2.1 available on dreamlike.art
They provide daily credits as of now

Comparing Models

Quick compare table for comparing various models

Image-Creation Tools

Question about any image-creation tool that accepts looking into a website design for reference

LoRA

Question about friends or acquaintance artists working with LoRA
Mention of Vignesh being quite nice and giving great advice for job hunting in Leuven

Thank You

Thank you messages to Nirant and Sid

Links

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Here is a YouTube link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xxziIWmaSA&t=1079s) to a thread discussing Hackathon ideas, including some that were similar to those seen at a previous hackathon.
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https://github.com/ShreyaR/guardrails - The message emphasizes that Indians are no longer playing catch up, despite the author’s physical state.
https://youtu.be/wHiOKDlA8Ac - Interesting new research on Generative Agents, with enthusiastic reporting. The message also asks for suggestions on how to try out Midjourney, as the Discord is currently at full capacity.