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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • My literal job consists of helping other (generally much less technically savvy) representatives provide support to our end users, and it being their literal job to provide “tech” help to users is still not enough of an incentive for 80+% of them to learn anything beyond basic computing. Sometimes it’s like pulling teeth just to get a fucking click path or screenshot of what’s actually happening.

    Now expand that out to now I am not getting paid to help people and those asking for help are often VERY entitled that they deserve to have their hand held through the entire process. It’s frustrating and often thankless.

    There’s an older manual for how to ask a “hacker” for technical help that I think is so spot on for setting proper expectations: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html










  • Interesting, I mainly have used text generation webui which has a search support plug in, kinda nifty to use my searxng instance for it. It’s a bit finicky though.

    Another thing to keep in mind then (apologies if this is just repeating info you already know), you’d also want to keep in mind your total potential context size in relation to the model size, since both take up VRAM. Reading search results/pages can eat up a lot