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  • Public service announcement for Matrix Users: If you thought nobody is writing you because nobody likes you, fear not, its just the servers having a meltdown today

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  • It's quite funny because people with their own servers have no issues but don't get back from people using the official servers leading to "Why did they suddenly stop replying?" moments.

  • What's your favourite "I have to do what you told me, but not in the way you wanted" story?

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  • it was a very weird one shot campaign in the style of magicthenoah (if that rings a bell); so very hastly written and not very serious.

    In my mind it had to do something with someone getting angry and wishing for something unclear regarding him never listening and it ended badly; but this is of course super vague ^^

  • Memorable character deaths?

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  • TL;DR Don't go swimming in an ice covered lake planning to climb up a ships anchor if you can't swim or climb

    A dwarf druid decides to stealthily board a ship that swims in a frozen lake. For that they break the ice, cast a sphere of air around them and their snake companion and jump into the ice cold water - protected for an hour. They then walk the long walk, recast the sphere and stand in front of the anchor. Swimming up after stopping the sphere is unlikely as they can't swim. So they try to climb the anchor. They fail because they can't climb. They fail again and again and again and again. Bruised and nearly out of mana they decide to go back. However, it is quite difficult to find the entry point in a frozen lake. When they finally do, they realize that they can't reach the entry point, because it is 2 and a half meter above the lakes floor as they went in a bit before breaking the ice. As the mana runs out they decide to stop the spell and swim up. But low and behold they still can't swim, fail miserably even though they got like 5 tests to make it by the generous GM and die together with their companion under the ice.

    They went without telling anyone so nobody was there to get him out or to help in any other way...

  • Unusual TTRPG mechanics?

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  • This is hilarious!

  • Need some AI Hallucination ideas

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  • Hey, I am currently working on a machine learning project, but LLMs (like ChatGPT that work with natural language) are not my specialty. LLMs generate plausible text. Text that you could read anywhere. It doesn't reason in the sense that it thinks about your question and answers intelligently. Also, "Semantic Vector closeness" (i.e. what word is closest to the meaning of "tomato" without the meaning of "red" in all possible positions is not something people understand as it is very abstract; emulating an AI perfectly is therefore unreasonable.

    In my opinion try to do the following (these are not just hallucinations):

    • Try to think of a sentence. Change it so it remains plausible but the meaning is altered
    • When the AI doesn't know the answer, make something plausible up. For example: If someone asks who invented something, tell them Edison did. There are many sentences out there that name Edison as the inventor of things.
    • Whenever you are able to digress because of a previously discussed topic, don't be afraid to digress
    • If people get frustrated and try to get a different answer from you, make sure to give them the same answer again but word it differently
    • Talk a lot and tell them blatant lies. When they correct you tell them how right they are and change your mind even if it is - again - wrong. Example: "How far is building XYZ away?" "Oh, it is quite a distance. The distance between here and XYZ is 3km" "But I can see the building!" "There are many reasons why you might be able to see the building despite the building being 3 km away. For example if there is nothing in between." "But it is much closer." "You are absolutely right! Good catch! The building is actually much closer than 3 km away." "BUT HOW FAR IS IT?!" "The building is 1 km away; which is much closer than 3 km." (still made up)

    Most importantly I think you should come up with your own system prompt. A system prompt can be as simple as "Answer as if you were a professor of computer science!" or as complex as chatgpts and try to stick to that.

    These tips are not just for hallucinations as I mentioned, because I think other aspects are equally or more important. In any case: don't try to emulate an AI perfectly. Make it fun for your players to interact with the character, have a few catchphrases and everything else might be unnecessary bloat, but feel free to dig deep.

  • A Coliseum that Slowly Floods with Lava

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  • Cool idea!

  • What's your favourite "I have to do what you told me, but not in the way you wanted" story?

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  • I once made a jinn appear who couldn't read and was deaf - it constantly started talking when players tried to say something "Oh! I know yoU wAnt to tAlk TO me, but I cAn't HeAr You. A WISH went wrOng and nOw I have nO EARS.". It was fun to be its voice. You could draw him images and he would do his best. The person who wanted to get lucky drew a four-leaf clover with some magic highlight lines. They received a glowing-in-the-dark four-leaf clover. Not too bad :P

  • On the strictness of "Limit Self-promotions"

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  • Thank you!

  • On the strictness of "Limit Self-promotions"

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  • Yea, that totally makes sense. I will wait a little bit longer to maybe get approval of a mod. In general I think it would be a great way to get lemmy out there a bit more and to draw rpg developers to reddit. The developer I have in mind is very well connected and had some - let's say interesting - experiences with reddit hence I thought it would be the ideal moment to suggest to him to check out lemmy.

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    On the strictness of "Limit Self-promotions"

  • Good actually user friendly foss chat app?

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  • While revolt is currently unable to provide all features Discord has, for chatting it is definitely a viable option and I am happy to see how quickly it develops. I am considering moving once it reaches a higher state of maturity (I use discord mainly for voice and screenshare). However, I feel like Matrix + Element is the perfect answer to the question.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • In my first year I had multiple issues with Linux. Mainly because I tried to install stuff that wasn't meant for my version of the OS but for an older one and I blindly followed the "black market" tutorials how to uninstall and reinstall packages to meet requirements. That corrupted my system and I had to repair it multiple times. Also, I played around with many distros and multibooted them all, destroying my grub once or twice.

    Now that I use Ubuntu for a "longer" time, I rarely have issues except hardware specific ones. For example the webcam doesn't work on my dell laptop because apparently it is not supported right out of the box. But apart from that I have no issues compared to windows (where imho windows 11 is an issue in itself).

  • VOID — my FOSS second-brain app

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  • What's the difference compared to Trilium?

  • yikes

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  • Strelok?!

  • What are some resources for learning Linux in a structured manner?

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  • If by chance you understand German this is an excellent beginner course: https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~frettloe/teach/unix20.html otherwise I would grab a book; but I have no specific book to recommend. However, to name some I found interesting after a quick search:

    • How Linux Works: What Every Super-User Should Know
    • The Linux Command Line

  • Far Reicht

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  • Somehow I also had Waluigi in my head when I first saw him.

  • Proposal to Sell Gaza Land Via Crypto Tokens Met With Backlash

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  • The times we live in are wild. Predicted that, Aldous?

  • Lemmy Development Update June 2025

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  • That's what I call a big update!

  • I'm putting my tin foil hat on and want to join the world of Linux, however I make music in Ableton. Do I just need to dual boot or does anyone have a better solution?

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  • I have set up a good hand full of dual booted Windows/ Linux machines. Never had any major issues. However, I also noticed that I only use Linux except for games and that's slowly changing, too, so I would suggest trying the dual boot if it makes you more comfortable to realize yourself that you don't need it.

  • Liking the French more every year...

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  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    Does anyone have a good set of non-tech faced slides for the Fediverse?

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
    VoxAliorum @lemmy.ml

    How To View Post by Community by Server?