Beyond High School - March Edition [Final]
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We are sure that by now you must have interacted
with GPT, LLAMA2 or Claude. And by interacting we
mean you must have talked to them, asked for their
assistance, and maybe gotten amused at their not-so-
useful responses occasionally. It is rather amusing and
sometimes downright frustrating to chat with these
large language models and get them to do what we
really need them to do. But are there some points to
keep in mind as we continue to work with generative AI
and as AI continues to change the way we work and
think about work? Here, we discuss some good practices
to follow while prompting the Gen AI of your choice-
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PROMPT ENGINEERING OR HOW TO
TALK TO THE AI OF YOUR CHOICE
Naincy Catherine
Office of High
School Programmes
There are no magic words, seriously!- There's no consistently effective "magic word" for
improving AI responses. You may have heard of strategies like promising rewards or
simulating empathy but they work sporadically and vary by AI. Max Woolf's extensive,
informal study on GPT-4 showed that outcomes from using threats or rewards were
inconclusive and situation-dependent. While these tactics can occasionally enhance AI
performance,
their
effectiveness
is
unpredictable
and
can
sometimes
be
counterproductive. It suggests that relying heavily on such approaches isn't necessary.
1.
Give it a persona- Tell the AI who they are, are they a marketer, an aspiring graphic
novelist or a haiku writer. This will help the AI build a context for the output you are
asking for. You can also mention who is the audience for the output and what should
be the format of the output (text, table, image).
2.
Give it examples- If you have samples of the output you want, do share it with the AI.
It's best to help the AI know which aspects of the sample are important, say the writing
style in a magazine essay, asking AI to follow those aspects.
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