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I have to prompt engineer a lot more with 3.5 than 4. The way I asked questions and convey what I want tends to be much more structured with 3.5, in a less natu
by ineedasername 3y ago
I have to prompt engineer a lot more with 3.5 than 4. The way I asked questions and convey what I want tends to be much more structured with 3.5, in a less natural way than I can do with 4. Hopefully 4 would be even better at answering a structured prompt like that, but also maybe not: For quick questions with a short answer 3.5 will sometimes give a simpler answer than 4, but 3.5 is correct. 4 isn't necessarily wrong, but it sort of reads into the question a bit more, the the answer is less succinct, more caveats and nuances explained, etc. In examples like this even though both give a correct answer, the one from 4 may be undesirable. You don't want to have to read through an extra paraph to pick out the answer to your question. There's more frictions.
Of course the above scenario is easily solved: Change your prompt to include "Be Brief", but that's exactly the argument-- the old prompt is at least in part obsolete and much changes to achieve functional equivalency in 4. And the you need to check for unanticipated changes to the answer that "be brief" would cause: maybe it would now be too brief! Maybe not, but you have to have some method of checking.