For instance "what are the advantages of putting instructions in a system prompt versus in the prompt itself?".
Are there any discords you can recommend for these sorts of discussions / conversations?
> For instance "what are the advantages of putting instructions in a system prompt versus in the prompt itself?".
That sounds more like a LLM usage question (people would think of LLM research as building the models themselves), hence the OpenAI discord.
For other people looking for LLM research, there's Karpathy's one, and the EleutherAI one.