Character AI's surprisingly good prompting guide, and its old posts were architecture intel
voooooogel · x · 2026-10-14
Developer voooooogel, who habitually critiques LLM companies' prompting guides, finds Character AI's guide surprisingly good — no all-caps system prompts, just practical advice like "put story transitions in your prompt for better coherence." He also notes that the company founded by Shazeer used to publish blog posts that served as meaningful architecture intel back when the OSS frontier was Llama 3 / DeepSeek v2.
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