Tldraw Computer

Question: Is there any way to induce randomness? Given two lists, instructions that say "Pick a random item from each list" consistently returns the same two items.

Seems like the same text/instructions are cached, so they give you the same result. Just a hack, but adding in a data box with current date+time fixes it as expected as the inputs are no longer the same. I wouldn't rely on this for true randomness though.

LLMs can't do random very well

needs something like a "tool use" or "python script" component to call out and get a proper random choice according to your instructions

It's interesting how sometimes the instructions seem to specifically dictate JSON output and other times not. Even without changing the prompt, it seems that this aspect - the generated series of steps for each instruction - is pretty random each time you run it. Or maybe it caches for awhile. What would be really nice would be if there were a checkbox to request structured or unstructured output from instructions, or better yet just lock in a set of derived steps you were happy with.