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A Few Prompts I Use to Test LLM Creativity

Related: Gwern’s much more serious and in-depth Benchmarking LLM Diversity & Creativity, my silly post The Neruda Factory

The models are pretty good at math and coding these days, but I care more about how well they can write and analyze writing. They’re not that great at it, but there is still significant variation between the models.

Here’s a few prompts that I use to test models for creativity and good writing skills. I don’t exactly compare the different outputs between models, but when a new model is released, I put them in and I think it gives me a decent sense of if it’s worth poking at further.

As of December 2024, of the models I have access to, Sonnet 3.5 and Llama 3.1 405B are leading the pack. o1 is medicore.

The Neruda Factory

People are talking a lot more about Claude these days, but I haven’t seen my exact perspective anywhere as a non-normie, non-technical person who likes him a lot, and Gwern says that it’s kind of important to write right now, so here goes.

This post is largely a breakdown of a few recent conversations I’ve had with Claude Sonnet 3.5 2024-10-22 which serve as scaffolding for some commentary, with a few more scattered thoughts at the end.

Video Games I Like

I’m not a super hardcore gamer, but I’ve probably played more games than most people you know. I only picked the hobby up at 16 – way too late to develop any sort of intuitive control for any kind of controller or joystick, but games absolutely fascinate me as an art form and a method of storytelling. I keep my eye on the IGF and play my way through the finalists and honourable mentions that look interesting every year, and pick my way through itch.io offerings on an regularish basis as well – although I’ve been playing less in recent years, so these recs are going to be a bit dated. Besides desktop games, I also love my trusty old 3DS 🙂

In games, I most value artistic beauty (I’m particular about art style though and tend to dislike pixel graphics), well written narrative/dialogue, and, well, being fun to play. I don’t enjoy PVP games, and most 1st and 3rd person POV games make me overwhelmed and nauseous.

For those reasons, I suspect my game recs would work well for lots of people as a list of games that you can play together with your girlfriend.

Games are PC unless otherwise marked.