Best model so far (not just in the 9b category)
I don't need a model for anything other than chatting and making it do creative stuffs. This model threw all the other models out of the window. It can do anything that is conversational or creative. No wonder it is on top 4 in EQ bench (as of 1-03-2024) in creativity category (basically it's a tie for the second spot).
I thought it was talking with so much allegories and theatrics (like sips coffee, looks puzzled, etc) but all of it can be booted out (if needed) using good prompts. It's prompt adherence (instruction following) is fascinating.
If there's one thing I need from this model, it is the improvement in context length. Me, and all the people I have introduced this model to would really appreciate if someone can improve it's context limit to 32k or something without losing quality and upload it. Because, we can feed it with entire movie scripts to read (using RAG) and make it do all kind of creative stuff with it.
Glad you like the model!
Some people reported they extended the context window with ROPE scaling:
https://huggingface.co/sam-paech/Darkest-muse-v1/discussions/3
I haven't tried this myself. Lmk if it works for you.