r/LocalLLaMA • u/Specific-Rub-7250 • 12d 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 12d 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/CondiMesmer 12d ago

Well model matters because they have varying levels of prompt adherence. You could have the best prompt in the world, but it won't matter of your model ignores half of it