2026.09.05 // LLM FOR DUMMIES // 8 MIN
LLM for Dummies #5 — From Autocomplete to Assistant: The Persona Is Learned
Pretraining buys a brilliant alien autocomplete with no manners. Part 5 is about the surprisingly small dose of extra training that turns it into something that answers questions, follows instructions and says no — instruction tuning, RLHF, the chat template, and why 'the assistant' is a character the model was taught to play.
→