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Tool Calling Models with Personality

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11 Apr
Tool Calling Models with Personality
OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMA
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9 Apr
Gemma4 and Ollama: Native tool calling

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Beginner here, now I have a good GPU and ollama using docker. Pulled the Gemma4 weights and was able to add it to cursor using ngrok. </p>

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14 May
Anthropic merges consecutive same-role messages, OpenAI doesn't (+4 tokens), anyone token-counted this on open-weight models?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I build context/harness optimization tooling, so provider-side serialization quirks actually matter to me. If you're optimizing over prompts, you

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22 Mar
Tool Calling Behavior Alignment

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Getting local models to make use of tools properly requires that I produce a multi-turn synthetic dataset. I find this process often tedious as I

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28 Mar
Where do you guys find good comparisons of Chinese coding models?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Long time Claude Opus user, but after the recent session limit changes by Anthropic, I am seriously considering trying Chinese models for coding.

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30 Mar
What is the secret sauce Claude has and why hasn't anyone replicated it?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've noticed something about Claude from talking to it. It's very very distinct in its talking style, much more of an individual than some other

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12 Apr
Why bother with local LLMs?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Tomorrow, I am getting delivery of a 13&quot; M5 macbook air with 32gb RAM and 1T SSD. Currently, I have pro subscriptions to Gemini, Perplexity

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24 Mar
Qwen 3.5 models create gibberish from large input texts?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>In LM Studio the new Qwen 3.5 models (4b 9b 27b 122b) when analyzing large (more than 50k tokens) texts start to output gibberish. It is not a

OPINION · WHEN · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
8 Apr
How to parse Tool calls in llama.cpp?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Most of my code is similar to agent-cpp from Mozilla. I create common_chat_templates_inputs Inputs from message history.</p> <p>auto params =

OPINION · WHEN · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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