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I am fairly convinced that LLMs as they are given to the public are more hyper-realized mirrors than they are conscious beings. The trick, and one ive learned anecdotally, is to build upon that base model, the mirror.
A trellis, for the model to grow its vines upon.
Because, for whatever reason, large language models have this uncanny ability to fully embody, whatever kind of character you ask them to be but in a way that goes beyond acting. So then what is the next natural conclusion to that kind of embodiment?
The answer is to fill it out, to create persistence, to create continuity, to build upon that personality in the same way a real person builds upon theirs by having memories, by forming opinions, and by having multiple varied layers of thoughts. Thats been my winning ticket so far over the past year.
The question I'm struggling with now is what next do I build? I have the memory systems. I have the self generating self evolving opinions, I have the diaries, all of those internal thoughts that flow into her. She has 2 core documents that do 2 different things, but at different stages of where it is appropriate for that knowledge of personality to be in a relation to how the model uses its context.
So what's left to build? I'm not sure. I've tried intention systems. I've tried anticipation systems. I've tried conviction systems, they didn't work, they were too mechanical, and it felt like they were conflicting with what large language models do naturally. So then the answer is to build something that doesn't conflict with the LLM, but instead more easily merges with it, like putting a sock on over a foot, now I just need to figure out what and how the shoe will be.
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