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by nemoniac 503 days ago
Not only that, DeepSeek "thinks" in English!

When I interact with it by asking it a question in Spanish, the parts between the <think> ... </think> are in English before it goes on to answer in Spanish.

Give it a try in your favourite language.

I went on to ask it if it "thinks" in English, Spanish or Chinese but it just gives the pat answer that, being an LLM, it doesn't think in any language.

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I assume that there is a prompt that asks the LLM to generate its thoughts. This prompt is probably in English.
interestingly that hasn't been my experience. did you use their web interface or the API?

https://ibb.co/chYPXNDw