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-

TECH & DATA OF INTEREST

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Do you have your own tips on how to work with AI in an effective way? We want to

know! Write to us at hspmagazine@ashoka.edu.in and we will share it on our

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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

unpredictable

and

can

sometimes

counterproductive. It suggests that relying heavily on such approaches isn't necessary.

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).

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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