{"slug": "ask-hn-how-do-you-avoid-get-out-of-llms-local-minima", "title": "Ask HN: How do you avoid / get out of LLMs local minima?", "summary": "A user on Hacker News asked how to prevent large language models from getting stuck in local minima during conversations, noting that LLMs often cling to ideas despite counterarguments. The user seeks techniques to break the model out of its fixed beliefs without resetting the entire context.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nWhen using LLMs, I have the impression that they often stick to an idea which they dont seem to be able to shake off, no matter how much arguing I can put in, and however strongly I feel about it. What's your trick to get the LLM out of its own beliefs ? I often find myself having to kill the entire context, which is obviously not the best...\n| |||||||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-avoid-get-out-of-llms-local-minima", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520927", "published_at": "2026-06-13 20:09:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-13 20:46:51.253186+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-avoid-get-out-of-llms-local-minima", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-avoid-get-out-of-llms-local-minima.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-avoid-get-out-of-llms-local-minima.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-avoid-get-out-of-llms-local-minima.jsonld"}}