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I had an LLM create a playlist for me.

I’m tired of the bad playlists I get from algorithms, so I made a specific playlist with an Llama2 based on several songs I like. I started with 50, removed any I didn’t like, and added more to fill in the spaces. The small models were pretty good at this. Now I have a decent fixed playlist. It does get “tired” after a few weeks and I need to add more to it. I’ve never been able to do this myself with more than a dozen songs.

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How about having an LLM create a praylist for you?

Then you could implement Salvation as a Service, where you privately confess your sins to a local LLM, and it continuously prays for your eternal soul, recommends penances, and even recites Hail Marys for you.

Interesting! I wrote a prompt for something similar[1], but I use Claude Sonnet for it. I wonder how a small model would handle it. Time to test, I guess.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/llm-prompts/tree/trunk/dat...

This prompt is a lot more complex than what I did. I don’t recall my exact prompt but it was something like, “Generate a list of 25 songs that I may like if I like Girl is on my Mind by the Black Keys.”

Interesting! I've sadly found more capable models to really fail on music recommendations for me.

Huh, interesting. For me that often dreamed up artist and songs.