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I've heard people describe "prompt engineering" as just people who know how to craft prompts well. I hope we converge on a better definition than that soon. Ma
by _ea1k 3y ago
I've heard people describe "prompt engineering" as just people who know how to craft prompts well.
I hope we converge on a better definition than that soon. Maybe the name can change too.
- nefarious_ends 3y agoprompt-fu, like Google-fu? I have a friend who’s gotten very good at prompt-fu.
- SlackingOff123 3y agoI think that's a bit of a mouthful for casual use. I like "prompting" as an equivalent to "googling", although it is a bit more dependent on context.
- jstarfish 3y agoIt's just social engineering, codified. Even in that context it feels cheap. Lawyers do the same thing as "prompt engineers"-- command mastery of English to achieve a desired outcome. We don't call them Litigation Engineers.
- vunderba 3y agoI think prompt craft is a better definition. Engineering implies that there is a quantifiable aspect, and by their very nature LLMs are somewhat inscrutable black boxes, so craft feels more appropriate.
- __loam 3y agoI think the people who know what they're doing are probably going to come up with some quantitative ways to evaluate the performance of prompts. That's where the real engineering will come from. You could even have chatGPT generate prompts for you and evaluate the best performing ones. Any moron can make up a prompt and say "yeah looks good enough".
- sagarpatil 3y agoLLM whisperers?
- Veen 3y agoIt's really a form of rhetoric tailored for LLMs. > Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations