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A guidance language for controlling large language models.
72 mentions on Hacker News by 64 people: 9 stories, 63 comments · first 2023-05-09 · latest 2026-09-15
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…from LLMs. Have been using it for some side projects and it seems to work pretty reliably. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
comment by Ilasky · 2023-06-01 · in Show HN: TodoBot is an AI coach that helps you write a better todo list -
…people bother to learn it -- but it will cut out the time it takes to scaffold an application. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
comment by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF · 2023-05-25 · in Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 -
…testers/testing data) on what people want, and looking for prompts/chat logs/guidance templates ( https://github.com/microsoft/guidance ) for tasks they expect to "just work" with natural language. Instead of being limited by the…
comment by srslack · 2023-05-24 · in QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs -
…and used by other algorithms is very important, see GPT's "system prompt", Microsoft Guidance ( https://github.com/microsoft/guidance ) and other tools and discussions. But you probably won't hear much about AI alignment itself, except…
comment by armchairhacker · 2023-05-20 · in Ask HN: How is “AI Alignment” currently being(treated/discussed/eval'd) on HN? -
…ecosystem on a possibly overly-complicated first pass solution to the orchestration problem. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
comment by chatmasta · 2023-05-19 · in LangChain: The Missing Manual -
…doesn't match GPT-3.5 elsewhere IMO, even though GPT-3.5 is also not great at complex tasks. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/main/notebooks/ch...
comment by whimsicalism · 2023-05-19 · in Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks -
For some reason the link now leads to a 404. Stable link: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/8677f3aa269e05ecb... Commit that removed the notebook: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/commit/b91d332f49a55ed...
comment by hrpnk · 2023-05-19 · in ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks -
It’s not deleted… https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/8677f3aa269e05ecb...
comment by hm-nah · 2023-05-19 · in ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks -
The author deleted it. Maybe dang could update the link? The last commit before that: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/8677/notebooks/ch... / https://archive.md/rGdnw
comment by zebracanevra · 2023-05-19 · in ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks -
Here is one difference, token healing: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance#token-healing-notebook
comment by verdverm · 2023-05-18 · in ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks -
What's with all these weird-looking projects with similar names using Guidance? https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/network/dependents They don't even appear to be using Guidance anywhere anyway https://github.com/IFIF3526/aws-memo-server…
comment by EddieEngineers · 2023-05-16 · in A guidance language for controlling LLMs -
…I understand the benefit of using a Handlebars-like DSL here. For example, given this code from https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/main/notebooks/ch... create_plan = guidance('''{{#system~}} You are a helpful assistant.…
comment by simonw · 2023-05-16 · in A guidance language for controlling LLMs -
We're biased, but we think guidance is still very useful even with OpenAI models (e.g. in https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/main/notebooks/ch... we use GPT-4 to do a bunch of stuff). We wrote a bit about the tradeoff between model…
comment by marcotcr · 2023-05-16 · in A guidance language for controlling LLMs