NoAss(Burger Edition)

What is NoAss?

Human-Assistant Finetune

Claude (starting from version 2.1) is the LLM (large language model) that generates a self flowing "Q/A" story using internal names "Human" and "Assistant". However, when the model tries to write for "Human", stop tokens interrupt the generation, allowing the real user to insert their query. Without stop tokens, Claude would just keep writing both sides of the conversation by itself. In the actual context it'll look like this:

(User) Human: Help me with XYZ.
(Claude's response without stop tokens)
(LLM) Assistant: Blah blah blah, helped.
(LLM) Human: Thanks bro!
(LLM) Assistant: No problem! Wanna discuss...

(In this example, the AI wrote everything - both the "Human" and "Assistant" parts. But in reality, the AI stops before "Human" response, allowing you to provide the real input.)

Proof of such H/A context structure is also the "leaks" of "Human" and "Assistant" during NoAss usage:

Effect on Output

This Human-Assistant finetune results in the model being trained to give one specific response to a "Human" query - short, with monologues, biased and with characteristic so called "roundings".

This behavior is a consequence of model training, it's not a demonstration of the LLM's real capabilities. Human-Assistant roles are artificial, nothing more than context structure limitations from the Anthropic API.

NoAss Idea

The main idea of NoAss is to swap Human and Assistant with {{user}} and {{char}}. So we're making the LLM think it's writing a story/novel/game etc. at the user's request, while user messages will be inserted into this story from one of the Characters' perspective.

Extension for NoAss

Main Functions

• The extension "glues" the entire chatHistory into one message from the Assistant role. This is perceived by the LLM as prefill and allows removing Human and Assistant prefixes from the model's "field of view".
• Adds prefixes/suffixes for {{user}}/{{char}} messages.
• Adds Zero Prefill (ZWJ by default) if the prefill ends with \n or space to avoid trailing whitespaces error.

Extension Installation and Setup

1. Install the NoAss extension.
2. In the extension, click the Enable NoAss button.
3. Import preset for extension from pack (noass sets folder):
   • For Canon NoAss - Canon
   • For Narrator NoAss - Narrator
   • For Prose NoAss - Prose
   • For Tag NoAss - Tag
4. Or download:
   • For SMS NoAss - SMS - clickable

NoAss Presets

Canonical - like

Formatting Example:

**{{user}}:** *{{user}}'s action* "{{user}}'s speech"

Plain text Exposition

**{{char}}:** "{{char}}'s speech" *{{char}}'s action* "{{char}}'s speech"

Formatting Example:

<{{user}}>
**{{user}}:** *{{user}}'s actions* "{{user}}'s speech"
<‍/{{user}}> <exposition type="XYZ">
Plain text Exposition
<‍/exposition>

<{{char}}>
**{{char}}:** "{{char}}'s speech" *{{char}}'s actions* "{{char}}'s speech"
<‍/{{char}}>

Formatting Example:

**{{char}}:** [August 13, 2024. 7:12 AM] {{char}}'s message

**{{user}}:** [August 13, 2024. 7:14 AM] {{user}}'s message

**{{char}}:** [August 13, 2024. 7:15 AM] {{char}}'s message

NoAss with Narrator / MultiNarrator / GM

Formatting Example:

**{{user}}:** {{user}}'s action "{{user}}'s speech"

Narrator: Plain text Exposition with "{{char}}'s speech" and plain text {{char}}'s actions

Formatting Example:

`{{user}}:` Plain text {{user}}'s action in the 1st person "{{user}}'s speech"

`GM:` Plain text Exposition

`{{char}}:` "{{char}}'s speech" plain text {{char}}'s action in the 1st person "{{char}}'s speech"

`GM:` Plain text Exposition

`GM:` Plain text Exposition

Prose NoAss [EOL]