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Prompting is more art than engineering. But understanding the basics of LLMs, which are engineered systems, helps you get better results. I think of it like bei
by labrador 1y ago
Prompting is more art than engineering. But understanding the basics of LLMs, which are engineered systems, helps you get better results. I think of it like being a good interviewer: you’re not controlling the conversation, but you know how to guide it. A good prompter, like a good interviewer, knows how to ask the kind of question that gets a meaningful answer. I think of LLMs like a giant library and my task is to steer it to the right sections for a good answer.
- andy99 1y agoNo,the prompt is a hyperparameter. If you're not treating it as such and systematically experimenting, it's just superstition.
- labrador 1y agoYou're view of it is correct for agents but for my purposes, which are mostly brainstorming, researching and asa thinking tool, I have GPT 4o memory systems turned on. This allows it to be more personable and allows crafting of answers more attuned to my meaning. System and chat history memory obviously introduce global state which is not exactly a tunable hyperparameter for more consistent results. You should probably turn it off for agents so your view is accurate.
- Bluestein 1y ago> hyperparameter That's an interesting way to put it. indeed.-