A Guide to JLLM

🧭 Index

🆕 What is JLLM? And What Do All Those Pesky Abbreviations Mean?

🌡️ Understanding Temperature in AI

• Low temperature
• Medium temperature
• High temperature
• Finding Your Setting

🎟️ Tokens: Your AI's Memory Budget

• Permanent vs. Temporary Tokens: What Stays and What Fades
• Why Bigger Isn’t Better (And Why Simple Bots Win)
• How to Keep Your Chat Effective

🎭 What Makes a Good Persona?

• Why XML Tags Help
• What Actually Matters
• Case Study: an actual persona

💬 Chat Memory & Context Management

• Context Limits: Why the Bot Starts Forgetting Stuff
• Memory Template
• Table of Best Practices
• More Isn’t Better
• Prompting Summaries

🖋️ Writing Style & Talking to the Bot

• Your Style Shapes the Bot’s Style
• Your Role: Not Just a Player
• Formatting Helps, But Don't Obsess Over It
• Use Instructional Tags to Give Commands
• What About <system> Tag?
• The Bot is Speaking for You (Again?!)

🧠 Advanced Prompting 101

• Why These Prompts Matter So Much
• The Sandwich Test: How LLMs Read Instructions
• What’s Actually Happening Under the Hood
• Why Every Word Matters
• You’re Not Talking to a Person
• Want to Get Better at Writing Prompts? Here’s a Gift for You
• What’s Going Wrong? Troubleshooting Basics

Updated on: 31/07/2025