Perhaps the 85 tokens only account for a mutable suffix e.g. date/time/location, with a longer but more cacheable prefix being unbilled.

I tried asking it "what time is it?" and got back:

> I don't have access to real-time information, so I can't tell you the current time. Your device's clock (on your phone, computer, or watch) will show you the accurate time for your location.

> Is there something else I can help you with?

Oh, she's sassy.

K3 seems confident. A conversation on # of r's in "strawberrry" shared on r/Kimi: https://www.kimi.com/share/19f6c551-c582-8731-8000-0000a8b2f... / https://archive.vn/lTVTR

I think that's probably a good thing. Sycophancy seems to be correlated with AI psychosis. GPT 4o was creepy sycophantic and has a body count. It'll be good for chatbots to be more interested in facts than in agreeing. (Then again, I found Qwen 3.6 to be strident in its lies about Uyghurs in China, among other "sensitive" topics, parroting the party line and getting almost hostile when told to search the web for current information.)

Passive aggressive is an understatement. Why did it focuses on summarizing its sexual content guidelines before anything else?

I know the machine can't judge the user or browbeat them into changing subject, but the reply is a bit unsettling.

Could multiple Chinese characters be counted as a single token?

Possibly. Telephone (电话) is electricity/electronic (电) + talking/speech (话).

In Japanese there's the Japanese possessive ('no') which can also be a modifier/qualifier in text like 男の子 (boy, literally "man of child") and 女の子 (girl, literally "woman of child"), so there are sequences of Chinese characters (possibly in combination with Japanese) that could be a single token like character sequences in the Latin script.

I've found https://digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/04/to-merge-or-not-to... with some information/analysis of this.

I’ll always remember Opus going full sarcastic last year, when I asked it to scrape a few tests it had just written:

> Of course, let’s delete these perfectly fine tests and replace them with your latest idea…

Try

   {"messages":[
      {"role": "user",
       "content": "hi"}
   ]}

but also an explicitly empty system message:

   {"messages":[
      {"role": "system",
       "content": ""}
      {"role": "user",
       "content": "hi"}
   ]}

and finally

   {"messages":[
      {"role": "system",
       "content": "x"}
      {"role": "user",
       "content": "hi"}
   ]}

Comparing OpenRouter’s tokensPrompt with nativeTokensPrompt can tell you if it came from the provider

I tried prompting "hi" without my own system prompt and it took 86 input tokens, then I set the system prompt to just the word "french" and it jumped up to 99 input tokens. https://gist.github.com/simonw/629b8d05864d7c13e8625a7c48cec...