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by wruza 822 days ago
Also, my (limited) experience with prompts tells that you want to invest more into the “You are” part. I’ll share my understanding, corrections are appreciated.

LLMs aren’t people even in a chat-roleplaying sense. They complete a “document” that can be a plot, a book, a protocol of conversation. The “AI” side in the chat isn’t an LLM itself, it’s a character (and so are you, it completes your “You: …” replies too - that’s where the driver app stops it and allows you to interfere). So everything you put in that header is very important. There are two places where you can do that: right in the chat, as in TFA, or in the “character card” (idk if GPTs have it, no GPT access for me). I found out that properly crafting a character card makes a huge difference and can resolve the whole classes of issues.

Idk what will work best in this case, but I’d start with describing which sort of a bot, how it deals with unclear or incomplete information, how amazing it is (yes, really), its soft/tech skills and problem solving abilities, what other people think of it, their experience and so on. Maybe would add few examples of interactions in a free form. Then in the task message I’d tell it more and specific details about that json.

One more note - at least for 8x7B, the “You are” in the chat is a much weaker instruction than a character card, even if the context is still empty. I low-key believe that’s because it’s a second-class prompt, i.e. the chat document starts with “This is a conversation with a helpful AI bot which yada yada” in… mind, and then in that chat that AI character gets asked to turn into something else, which poisons the setting.

Simply asking the default AI card represents 0.1% of what’s possible and doesn’t give the best results. Prompt Engineering is real.

I have high confidence that I could accomplish this task using a lower end model with a high degree of accuracy.

Same. I think that no matter how good a model is, this prompt just isn’t a professional task statement and leaves too much to decide. It’s a task that you, as a regular human, would hate to receive.