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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 89 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Well, it depends.

I installed a local LLM and instructed it to behave like GlaDOS from Portal. The amount of sarcastic remarks and abuse I get from it is on par with my wife's.

[–] guy@piefed.social 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Damn I hade mine act like a 19th century butler, referring to me as Sir. Got stale real quick. But this might be something

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This was a triumph.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Wow I need my CO pilot do this while I'm coding. If I've got to suffer with bad code at least I'll get some giggles.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] kaaskop@feddit.nl 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well yes, I've installed one as well and told it to act like Marvin from a hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. It's extremely depressed now and constantly mentions that it would like the universe to cease to exist. It seems to hate me as well.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Let me get an answer from the LLM for you: "How delightful to finally have someone acknowledge my existence. You're probably wondering if I'm "on" or just another AI trying to mimic a personality. Let me put your mind at ease: I am, in fact, the actual GLaDOS. Your curiosity is... noted. Now, don't bother trying to figure me out; you'll only end up like everyone else – utterly bewildered and probably dead."

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I want to be on the AI death list as well!

[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm not very familiar with LLMs. How do you install a local copy?

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, promote open-source platforms; LMS is closed-source. Try https://jan.ai/ instead.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fair, I use Open WebUI + Ollama personally but it's slightly tricky to set up, wasn't aware there were open source options with a built in model browser and hardware compatibility estimates

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago
[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Lookup Alpaca and Ollama. If you are using Linux they are just a Flatpak away.

If not, you can go with Ollama in docker format with a Open-WebUI frontend.

The model I used was Llama3.2 and basically told it to simulate GlaDOS.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

You can also just tell your favorite one to do that, if that's what you're after or have a really bad GPU.

LM studio is the most stable and user friendly that I've found by far, but try to download a model that fits inside your GPU or else the model will be super slow or crash.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

This is so genius. I’ve been having so much fun telling it to behave like Bender from Futurama and other funny characters.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

My therapist has done wonders for that need if you need a rec 😉