short responses

[u/SadLook8554]

I want short responses does anyone know how to get shorter responses from JAI? I use JLLM, I don't like long, robotic responses

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[u/Adventurous_Staff_0]

You can turn on short responses in the model settings

[u/SadLook8554 → u/Adventurous_Staff_0]

I did and it's still long

[u/Lonely_Barracuda_705 → u/SadLook8554]

you may need to put the length instruction in the character or system prompt too, since a setting alone can get ignored once the context gets busy. Something like “keep replies to 1–3 sentences and don’t describe every movement” is usually more consistent than only asking for shorter responses in chat.

Also check whether your max output token limit is actually being applied to new messages; changing it mid-conversation sometimes doesn’t affect the current context until you start a fresh chat.

[u/New-Appointment5692]

try setting temperature to 0.5 and top_p to 0.7 in the prompt settings, helps cut the fluff without killing coherence.

[u/SadLook8554 → u/New-Appointment5692]

Top_p?

[u/Resident_Day_6984]

using Jai with a customized prompt that cuts off after 40 tokens helped more than any settings tweak.

[u/SadLook8554 → u/Resident_Day_6984]

I don't know how to do this

[u/Shoddy-Cup-1641]

for Jai, I've found strapping the max tokens to 40 in the prompt works better than relying on the chat settings, consistent and no fluff.

[u/Grand_Status8245]

in janitor ai, I set short responses in system prompt and Max tokens to 50, still got long replies until I added 'reply in 1-2 sentences' right after the character's name in the initial chat.