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by wongarsu 367 days ago
Prompt writing can probably take a lot of lessons from designing surveys. Phrasing, the chosen options and their order have massive impact both for humans and for LLMs. The advantage with LLMs is that you can reset their memory, for example to ask the same question with a different order of options. With humans that requires a completely new human each time

Half the battle is knowing that you are fighting

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I think there's a lot of alpha left in building a better and more intuitive UX for seed/top-p/temperature etc. The vast majority of users don't get that far.