Hyper theme will crash if the user has no oldfiles history

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Bug
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lua
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Start in lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua around line 179, where mru_list uses utils.get_mru_list() to determine the OS separator. Check the separator handling for an empty MRU result, then verify that the Hyper theme starts successfully on a fresh Neovim installation with no oldfiles history.

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https://github.com/nvimdev/dashboard-nvim/blob/fabf5feec96185817c732d47d363f34034212685/lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua#L179

mru_list takes the result of utils.get_mru_list() to figure out which OS separator it should use, but this function will always return {} on a fresh install of Neovim.

Lua already provides a safe way to get the directory separator for all systems using package.config:

local sep = package.config:sub(1, 1)
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