r/LocalLLaMA
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PSA for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 users — don’t blow out your prompt cache with system role messages mid-conversation
DSv4F doesn't ship a jinja, but for distributions that do and faithfully reconstruct what DS releases in their chat template python, every system message is hoisted into the system prompt at the top -- the format has no mid-conversation system turn. So, anything you stick at the tail or mid-convo actually fries your pr