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Hermes

Made Crystal Clear

A practical guide to building with Hermes, the open, steerable LLMs from Nous Research

Open weights, steerable behaviour, full control. Learn to run, prompt, fine-tune and deploy Hermes models without giving up your data or your budget.

Pages
220
Level
Intermediate
Status
Coming soon

Inside the book

  1. 01The open model landscape
  2. 02Running Hermes locally and in the cloud
  3. 03System prompts and steerability
  4. 04Structured output and tool use
  5. 05Fine-tuning: data, LoRA, evaluation
  6. 06Serving, quantization and throughput
  7. 07Guardrails and evaluation harnesses
  8. 08Case study: a private assistant

You'll leave with

  • Own your inference stack
  • Steer behaviour without endless prompting
  • Evaluate models on your own tasks

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