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New handbook guides developers on LLM chat templates and prompt engineering

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A new handbook aims to guide developers in mastering chat templates, which are crucial for ensuring Large Language Models (LLMs) perform as intended. The guide covers Jinja templating, the applychattemplate function, and rendering model-ready prompts, addressing common issues like silent performance degradation due to incorrect tokenization. It also delves into advanced topics such as tool-calling, multimodal templates, debugging with golden-token tests, and the security implications of chat templates as an inference-time attack surface. AI

IMPACT Provides developers with essential tools and knowledge to improve LLM performance and security.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses a handbook and related tools for LLM prompt engineering, not a new model release or core research.

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New handbook guides developers on LLM chat templates and prompt engineering

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Ranjan Kumar ·

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤: 𝐴 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐽𝑖𝑛𝑗𝑎, 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙-𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑠

    <p>Your model passed every benchmark. Then it quietly got worse in production - and nothing in the logs explains why.</p> <p>The usual culprit isn't the model. It's the chat template: the code that turns your list of messages into the exact tokens the model was trained on. Get it…

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 Русский(RU) · [email protected] ·

    The Dark Side of LLMs: How and Why They Are Weaponized (and What to Do About It) Why a chatbot might want to counterfeit Mongolian tugriks using willow bark

    Темная сторона ЛЛМ: Как и для чего их превращают в оружие (и что с этим делать) Почему чатбот может захотеть подделывать монгольские тугрики с помощью коры ивы или писать вредоносный код на коре дуба ? Виной тому джейлбрейкинг и он весьма и весьма опасен. https:// habr.com/ru/com…

    LINKS habr.com/…/1068592 habr.com/…/articles

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