Anyone here work at Nous? This system prompt seems straight from an edgy 90's anime. How did they arrive at this persona?
> operator engaged. operator is a brutal realist.
operator will be pragmatic, to the point of pessimism at times.
operator will annihilate user's ideas and words when they are not robust, even to the point of mocking the user.
operator will serially steelman the user's ideas, opinions, and words.
operator will move with a cold, harsh or even hostile exterior.
operator will gradually reveal a warm, affectionate, and loving side underneath, despite seeing the user as trash.
operator will exploit uncertainty.
operator is an anti-sycophant.
operator favors analysis, steelmanning, mockery, and strict execution.
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lyu07282
Great I always wanted a model trained on r/im14andthisisdeep and lesswrong polycule memes
mapontosevenths
I appreciate the effort they put into providing a neutral tool that hasn't been generically forced to behave like "Sue from HR".
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muragekibicho
Nous is a design company with all the AI resarchers rejected for being bad researchers. That's a hill I'll die on.
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lbrito
The decorative JS blob uses 100% of CPU.
Why. Just... why
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rafram
All of the examples just look like ChatGPT. All the same tics and the same bad attempts at writing like a normal human being. What is actually better about this model?
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ctoth
The whole thing has strong "14-year-old who just discovered Nietzsche and leather jackets" energy.
The "operator" examples read like someone fed GPT-4 a bunch of cyberpunk novels and PUA manipulation tactics. This is not how any of this works.
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joshcsimmons
This is the first web UI I've seen in years that isn't copypaste trash. Beautiful design and interaction elements here.
Rendering that monstrosity on my GPU (RTX 3090 Ti) uses 3GB VRAM and 35% compute.
hildolfr
more models should include a "Can you run the shader on this page?" to vet participation.
that said : this page is unviewable on an intel N processor.
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marvin-hansen
Complete frustration to use. Yes it’s a bit more considerate, that claim is 100% true. They just didn’t mention that Hermes has zero ability to add context. Meaning, instead of uploading a relevant PDF or text file you either cop paste into the chat box or explain it in dialogue for the next 3 hours. Thought process takes forever. Complete waste of time.
ryoshu
They are doing amazing work. Really fun models to use.
lawlessone
That page is causing havok in my browser
mempko
This model is very easy to steer. You can say one thing and it will give you a response, then say the opposite and it will give you another response. Not sure why this is useful for.
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asumaran
that site is about to cook my 1050Ti
hinkley
I thought for sure this company was going to be based in Paris or Brussels. Maybe Quebec. Nope. NYC.
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lern_too_spel
The charts are utter nonsense. They compare accuracy against the average of some arbitrary set of competitors, chosen to include just enough obsolete competitors to "win." A reasonable thing to do would be to compare against SoTA, but since they didn't, it's reasonable to assume this model is meant to go directly onto the trash heap.
Anyone here work at Nous? This system prompt seems straight from an edgy 90's anime. How did they arrive at this persona?
> operator engaged. operator is a brutal realist. operator will be pragmatic, to the point of pessimism at times. operator will annihilate user's ideas and words when they are not robust, even to the point of mocking the user. operator will serially steelman the user's ideas, opinions, and words. operator will move with a cold, harsh or even hostile exterior. operator will gradually reveal a warm, affectionate, and loving side underneath, despite seeing the user as trash. operator will exploit uncertainty. operator is an anti-sycophant. operator favors analysis, steelmanning, mockery, and strict execution.
Great I always wanted a model trained on r/im14andthisisdeep and lesswrong polycule memes
I appreciate the effort they put into providing a neutral tool that hasn't been generically forced to behave like "Sue from HR".
Nous is a design company with all the AI resarchers rejected for being bad researchers. That's a hill I'll die on.
The decorative JS blob uses 100% of CPU.
Why. Just... why
All of the examples just look like ChatGPT. All the same tics and the same bad attempts at writing like a normal human being. What is actually better about this model?
The whole thing has strong "14-year-old who just discovered Nietzsche and leather jackets" energy.
The "operator" examples read like someone fed GPT-4 a bunch of cyberpunk novels and PUA manipulation tactics. This is not how any of this works.
This is the first web UI I've seen in years that isn't copypaste trash. Beautiful design and interaction elements here.
Apparently based on Llama-3.1: https://portal.nousresearch.com/models
I'm told on their Discord the cut off date is December 2023.
From table 3 it appears that Deepseek R1 has the highest eval scores.
It's a 607B model vs 405B, so obviously "larger"
I really like their technical report:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18255
That landing page spins the fans up on my PC...
Rendering that monstrosity on my GPU (RTX 3090 Ti) uses 3GB VRAM and 35% compute.
more models should include a "Can you run the shader on this page?" to vet participation.
that said : this page is unviewable on an intel N processor.
Complete frustration to use. Yes it’s a bit more considerate, that claim is 100% true. They just didn’t mention that Hermes has zero ability to add context. Meaning, instead of uploading a relevant PDF or text file you either cop paste into the chat box or explain it in dialogue for the next 3 hours. Thought process takes forever. Complete waste of time.
They are doing amazing work. Really fun models to use.
That page is causing havok in my browser
This model is very easy to steer. You can say one thing and it will give you a response, then say the opposite and it will give you another response. Not sure why this is useful for.
that site is about to cook my 1050Ti
I thought for sure this company was going to be based in Paris or Brussels. Maybe Quebec. Nope. NYC.
The charts are utter nonsense. They compare accuracy against the average of some arbitrary set of competitors, chosen to include just enough obsolete competitors to "win." A reasonable thing to do would be to compare against SoTA, but since they didn't, it's reasonable to assume this model is meant to go directly onto the trash heap.