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Temperature

Temperature is a setting you can adjust in many AI tools that controls how creative or deterministic the AI's response will be. A high temperature (e.g., 0.8) makes the AI more exploratory and imaginative, offering diverse and sometimes surprising answers. A low temperature (e.g., 0.2) makes the AI more focused and predictable, often returning very similar or even identical answers for the same prompt, which is useful for factual queries.

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