Prompt engineering
How to Create Descriptive, Poetic Text
- Choose a topic and narrow down the scope.
- Select a point-of-view like third, second or first person.
- Directly or indirectly convey a mood. A subject or scene could evoke a particular feeling or you could give the chatbot a mood directly.
- Describe sensory details. Add details about the scene such as sounds, sights, smells, or textures. By pointing out an important detail, you can guide the output.
- Don't tell, Show. Ask the chatbot not to tell the user how to think or feel.
- Use figurative language. The chatbot should be encouraged to use metaphors, similes and descriptive phrases. Request a description that is evocative, lyrical, beautiful or poetic.
- Iterate and iterate. Your first prompt might not yield the desired result. Rework the prompt until you find an appealing answer. After you have created a prompt that is appealing, the chatbot can create many descriptions and you can pick the one you like.
- Edit and revise. Don't be afraid of revising and editing the generated text.
- You can ask the chatbot for assistance. The chatbot will explain why it selected a specific detail or phrase in a reply. The chatbot can also help you create a better prompt. You can point out individual phrases and ask the chatbot for alternatives or suggestions.
Emergent Prompting
chain-of-thought prompting
Fill in the Blank
Example
Tom Hanks is a _ by profession.
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Parameters
Common Parameters
Temperature
Perplexity
Burstiness
User-created Parameters
Introduction
These are user-created parameters. They serve to convey the intent of the users in a more concise way. These are not part of the model API but patterns the LLM has picked up through its training. These parameters are just a compact way to deliver what is usually expressed in natural language.
Example in ChatGPT
Prompt: Write a paragraph about how adorable a puppy is.
Temperature: 1.0
Sarcasm: 0.9
Vividness: 0.4
We add "Prompt: " to the start of our prompt to make sure ChatGPT knows where our prompt is. We add the GPT parameter temperature, which goes from 0 to 1 to indicate the following parameters also range from 0 to 1. Then we list our parameters along with their values which go from 0 to 1 (0 is the smallest, and 1 is the largest). Note that having too many or contradictory parameters may lower the quality of the response.
List of Parameters
- Professionalism -
- Randomness -
- Sentimentality -
- Sesquipedalianism -
- Sarcasm -
- Laconic -
- Asyndetic -
- Vividness -
- Ecclesiastical -
References
- ↑ How Can We Know What Language Models Know? https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12543/