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David C Morris's avatar

Thanks for the two resources on generating prompts. I had the opportunity to hear Ethan Mollick speak last week. He said that non-coders were actually better at prompting than coders. I found that interesting. I'm getting better with my prompts - I like your advice on giving them a way out. It addresses one of my concerns that these systems seem to give you an answer to anything you ask. By default, they don't know when to say, I don't know.

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CRA | Admired Leadership's avatar

Thanks, David. We've built that into our custom instructions for GPT4. But GPT being GPT I don't know if it's following them well or not. Claude 3 Opus seems to be better and following that sort of direction. I hope that's an indication of where things are headed. Ethan's perspective is interesting. We've found that it's easy to over-engineer a prompt. It's like cooking -- how much spice is enough? Just enough.

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