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by ImaCake 6 days ago
I find it helpful to think of LLMs as reflections. If you can talk like an expert mathematician at the model it will respond like one. While Terrance's first prompt looks trivial I expect a first year Uni student would be hard pressed to provide something that good.

I guess it is kind of the inverse of the "you are an expert mathematician" prompt engineering of gpt3.5. Since no one ever says that to an expert mathematician when they are doing expert math the model immediately reflects that it is not an expert mathematician.

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Isn't LLM doing something like argmax{x} P(x|context) where x is the next word, and context is the words before including your instructions? Thus, the LLM output is heavily depending on your instructions, and if you input an expert context it would produce an expert result. Consequently, domain expertise has a significant bearing on what you can achieve from LLM.