Next Stop: Warm Necksville

No one can wear a turtle neck on a train, not even a conductor

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PROMPT: You're unsure whether or not to trust him, but very thankful that you wore a turtle neck.

“You’re unsure whether or not to trust him, but very thankful that you wore a turtle neck.”

“I don’t know about that,” she said.

“No one can wear a turtle neck on a train,” said the conductor. “Not even a conductor.”

“Then why do you wear them?”

“I don’t know,” he said. “Maybe it’s because I got tired of trains. Maybe I was born with them.”

“I’m not sure. I’d like to wear them if I can.”

“Well, then, why don’t you?”

[END TRANSMISSION]


Editor’s Notes

Written by AI, uses my fiction 774 gpt-2 fine-tuned model. Surprised I got anything decent out of such a low temperature setting, but probably only worked because the sample length was so short.

Prompt

Prompt came from the Random Sentence Generator

Edits

Added quotation mark to beginning to match ending one. Deleted three sentences from the end that just repeated text already in story.

Title

Title generalized from text

GPT-2 Settings
{
  "return_as_list": true,
  "length": 200,
  "top_k": 200,
  "top_p": 0.9,
  "truncate": "<|endoftext|>",
  "nsamples": 3,
  "batch_size": 3,
  "run_name": "model-adult_fiction-774M-run1",
  "prefix": "You're unsure whether or not to trust him, but very thankful that you wore a turtle neck.",
  "temperature": 0.65
}