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by andai 80 days ago
I told mine to remove all unnecessary words from a sentence and talk like caveman, which should result in another 50% savings ;)
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I'm a fan of Dr Seuss mimicry, the extra tokens are worth the entertainment.
Have you tried asking it to remove vowels?
Not sure that would help due to how tokenization works, but I remember from the early GPT-4 days that LLMs have the ability to "compress" a message into an incomprehensible string of Unicode, which the LLM itself understands perfectly, and which is 5-10x shorter than the English text.

That was a big deal when the context size was 8K; now that tokens are cheap and context is huge, nobody seems to be investigating that anymore.

"I told it don't make mistakes, and don't use a lot of tokens! I'm a 10x Engineer now!" (=