Writing Styles With Deepseek R1

Normally LLMs don't really strongly adhere to requested styles, either because of a lack of data or too many 'safety' nets. This is the first one I've seen STRONGLY adhere to different styles. And of course, some authors/artists work better than others.

Edit: Updated preset, this feels much better. Main API only supports a temp of 1.0, so I recommend finding any other provider that supports lower - .4 to .6 works well:

With temp at 1, its creative and off the rails, but hard to wrangle, and I feel I have this preset dialed in pretty decently to make it coherent. It still struggles with spatial reasoning, and maybe there's a trick to fix it and force it in some thinking steps. The preset is still very much a rough draft, being only about a day old. What I'm posting here is mostly a writing style test.

I started with a very basic intro, using the Dude from the Big Lebowski, since it's a fairly well known character. I wanted to keep that aspect of it consistent, and paint a very bland initial scene that doesn't really have a lot of options for crazy shit happening so we could primarily focus on style differences. I told it in most instances to focus on narrative, and not dialogue, but sometimes it did both. Also, Chris is just the name I used as myself, the user, who is sitting in the bar I set for the initial intro.

I tested author styles, director styles, and even some TV show styles:

Initial basic no-style intro:

Authors

Douglas Adams:

Chuck Palahniuk:

Cormac McCarthy:

Neil Gaiman:

George Saunders:

Bret Easton Ellis:

Hunter S. Thompson:

Philip K. Dick:

Lemony Snicket:

Chuck Tingle:

David Foster Wallace:

Haruki Murakami:

Franz Kafka:

Virginia Woolf:

Dante:

Peter Hamilton:

Stephen King:

Mario Puzo:

Directors

Quentin Tarantino:

David Lynch:

Wes Anderson, focused on There Will Be Blood

Stanley Kubrick:

John Hughes:

Martin Scorcese, with an omniscient narrator in the 2nd person:

Odds and Ends

Sopranos style:

Deadpool movie style, with 4th wall breaking (the primary character narrating):

In the style of a Seinfeld episode (live studio audience comments):

Styled after Frank Miller's Sin City:

Monty Python style: