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If you share your prompts then we could help. The most generally applicable thing I can think of is that you have to drop your old habits from using search engi
by throwaway4aday 4y ago
If you share your prompts then we could help. The most generally applicable thing I can think of is that you have to drop your old habits from using search engines, those types of queries will not get you very far. You have to talk to it like you would talk to someone in your company Slack/Teams/whatever chat and explain what it is you're trying to do and what tools you want to use to do it. Then ask it to refine its answer by telling it what it got wrong or clarifying the request you made by adding more details. Also, always keep in mind that it is fundamentally a text completion engine. You can drastically alter the type of output you get by adding relative context up front. That can be anything from snippets of code to requests for it to write in the style of some famous person to even just a chunk of your own writing so it can get an idea of the style that you use.
- roflyear 4y agoI'm not talking about informational stuff.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoCool, if you don't want to talk about it that's ok. In that case I'd suggest looking up one of the various prompt libraries and learning from there.
- roflyear 4y agoI'm just not talking about trying to fish an accurate answer. I think you can do that. I'm talking about getting an answer about something that requires an interaction that gets the model to "understand" the problem (like you would a person) - which GPT can't do.
- wnkrshm 4y agoSomething akin to: Here is a niche mathematical problem that does not fit any existing solutions/publications, we need a working but not necessarily optimal solution to do this. ?
- roflyear 4y agoSure, or even an existing algo or method that is applied to something very niche that hasn't been done much (at least in the data GPT is trained on, I guess). In my experience these things need a little nuance communicated as a part of the problem, but GPT can't get there. It just starts looping over incorrect solutions (rather than modifying them slightly to get it right like a person would). These aren't crazy advanced things, either. I'm not a genius. I solved the problems when GPT couldn't. I was just trying out GPT4.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoConsider how long our comment thread is and I still don't have a clear idea of what you're talking about or how to help you.
- roflyear 4y agoI'm not looking for help, so I don't think we're really trying to have the same conversation.