Comment by simonw
10 months ago
It's maddening to me how little good writing there is out there on effective prompting.
Here's an example: what's the best prompt to use to summarize an article?
That feels like such an obvious thing, and yet I haven't even seen that being well explored.
It's actually a surprisingly deep topic. I like using tricks like "directly quote the sentences that best illustrate the overall themes" and "identify the most surprising ideas", but I'd love to see a thorough breakdown of all the tricks I haven't seen yet.
This whitepaper is the best I've found so far, at least for covering general prompting techniques.
https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-prompt-engineering
This comment has some advice from Simon Willison on this topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897666
Maybe you should ask him. lol
It seems a little counterintuitive, but you can ask an LLM to improve a prompt. They are quite good at it.
Github (Marketplace) shipped a little ui to -improve- prompts here on their new AI marketplace https://github.com/marketplace