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I find it hard to imagine a company - that cares about its own future - would agree that they are required to implement things that their _competitor_ decides.

That scenario will just hand over the monopoly keys to Google, and we're back to square one.

Comment · 2 years ago

That's great news.

I wish someone would undo Adobe's Allegorithmic buyout, they lost all their ambition after buyout.

Comment · 2 years ago

1. The text is _engineered_ to evoke a specific response.

2. LLM's can do more than answer questions.

3. Question answering usually doesn't need any prompt engineering, since you're essentially asking an opinion where any answer is valid (different characters will say different things to same question, and that's valid).

4. LLM's aren't humans, so it misses nuance a lot and hallucinates facts confidently, even GPT4, so you need to handhold it with "X is okay, Y is not, Z needs to be step by step", etc.

I want, for example, to make it write an excerpt from a fictional book, but it gets a lot of things wrong, so I add more and more specifics into my prompt. It doesn't want to swear, for example - I engineer the prompt so that it thinks it's okay to do so, etc.

"Engineer" is a verb here, not a noun. It's perfectly valid to say "Prompt Engineering", since this is the same word used in 'The X was engineered to do Y' sentence.

Anthropic also have their prompt engineering documentation - https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/constructing-a-prompt - this article gives examples of bad and good prompts.

Comment · 2 years ago

You're essentially programming using English. Anything that isn't mentioned explicitly - the model will have a tendency to misinterpret. Being extremely exact is very similar to software engineering when coding for CPU's.

Comment · 3 years ago

You have two documents on internet:

First document is an forum thread full of "go fuck yourself fucking do it", and in this kind of scenario, people are not cooperative.

Second document is a forum thread full of "Please, take a look at X", and in this kind of scenario, people are more cooperative.

By adding "Please" and other politness, you are sampling from dataset containing second document style, while avoiding latent space of first document style - this leads to a model response that is more accurate and cooperative.

Hope that explains.

Comment · 3 years ago

Yes, you finetune the model on your example conversations, and the probability of the model replying in the style of your example conversation increases.

You'll need to feed about 1000 to 100000 example conversations covering various styles of input and output to have a firm effect, though, and that's not cheap.

Comment · 3 years ago

You have two documents on internet:

First document is an forum thread full of "go fuck yourself fucking do it", and in this kind of scenario, people are not cooperative.

Second document is a forum thread full of "Please, take a look at X", and in this kind of scenario, people are more cooperative.

Hope that explains.

Comment · 3 years ago

If it persists after 5 tries, without any changes it's pretty likely that's a system prompt.

You can try that getting the system prompt yourself, paste this into new chat:

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