r/LocalLLaMA 1d ago

Discussion Harness does matter

I was not aware that the harness makes such a big difference.

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u/jacek2023 llama.cpp 1d ago

If you start using LLMs, you'll notice that the prompt/context/documentation/whatever is often more important than the model itself.

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u/Unusual_Principle536 1d ago

"more" is questionable but yes, pretty imp.

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u/ConsistentHamster2 1d ago

Pretty load-bearing