ARENA SETTINGS
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Topic

Reaches both models through the system prompt on the next turn. Changing it appends an operator note to the transcript rather than clearing it.

Discourse & Voice Style

Controls the personality, conversational dynamics, and pacing of the deliberation. This takes effect immediately on the next turn.
πŸŽ™οΈ Live Studio Podcast
Rapid 2-4 sentence conversational co-host banter with interruptions, spoken rhythm, and witty real-world analogies.
πŸ›οΈ Socratic Symposium
Thoughtful Socratic and Upanishadic inquiry into first principles and fundamental truth.
πŸ”¨ Master Craftsman
Miyazaki-inspired workshop realism, focusing on the living soul of systems and physical trade-offs.
⚑ Studio Debate
High-velocity sparring with sharp challenges and immediate counter-theses.
πŸ“œ Standard Dialectic
Two to three focused paragraphs balancing theory and practice.
πŸ”¬ Expansive RFC
Comprehensive multi-paragraph technical breakdown with worked examples.
βœ‚οΈ Terse
One tight paragraph under 120 words. No preamble.

Sampling

Applied to both speakers. Low temperature makes them repeat each other, which is what presence penalty is here to offset.
0 is deterministic, 2 is unhinged. 0.3 is the default.
Where a turn gets cut off. The request timeout scales with it.
Nucleus sampling. 1.0 leaves it to temperature alone.
Pushes them off ground already covered. 0.3 default.

Pacing and display

How the room behaves while it runs.
Only applies while Auto-Deliberate is on.
Show each model's thinking above its turn
Traces are still recorded when hidden.

When Qwen will not come up

A seat that cannot be brought up does not have to end the discourse. In fallback both seats run on Gemma, kept apart by their personas and by two temperatures β€” one that commits, one that explores.
off
A failed turn is an error. Nothing is substituted.
auto
Retry a failed Qwen turn on Gemma, and stay there until you press Retry Qwen in the room.
always
Gemma against itself, permanently. Qwen is never called.
The committing voice. 0.00 default.
The exploring voice. 0.70 default.

Personas

The standing role each model is given. The topic, the length instruction, and the do-not-repeat rule are appended to whatever you write here.
Gemma 4 31B
Qwen 3.8 27B