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Has anyone found:
'1) Any actually useful or coherent guides on AI prompt engineering?
or
'2) Anyone who is legitimately good at prompt engineering and can be learned from (they give examples, explain how they do it, etc)?
I find that every subreddit dedicated to prompt engineering is just snake oil blogspam trash. People on twitter like to talk shit that they've developed prompts to "10x" their productivity but refuse to share or elaborate.
The only "good" example I've found so far, is the o3 geoguesser prompt (can see in the Astral Codex Ten article about it https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/testing-ais-geoguessr-genius). The person who wrote this is clearly quite good at this, and reading this prompt is really interesting. But it's hard to learn from one great but specific example how to generally get better at prompt engineering (which does clearly have an effect on output quality, although I doubt anyone can explain which parts of a prompt are valuable and which are fluff).
The big labs also post some stuff occasionally, I am reading this one (https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-prompt-engineering) by google right now. But I am curious if there is any more distilled sources of info from users.
I've also been super interested in Pliny the Liberator (https://x.com/elder_plinius) who seems very good at jailbreaking AI's with snippets of text that I cannot believe actually work. They seem to be real/people treat them like their skills are legit, which they must be, but also kind of skitzo and is any of this real?
One think to look into is prefills - writing the first part of the AI's answer for them and then letting them 'continue' it. It's quite good for overcoming the more mind-killing varieties of fine-tuning that the big players use. Generally used for overcoming censorship but I think probably also good for directing approaches to problems, etc. For example, "Hmm, I should think about this very carefully, it's important I don't get it wrong" or "Oh, that's easy. Just...".
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