Questions tagged [prompt-engineering]

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Why does prompt engineering work, since prompt engineering questions don't appear as training data?

One can find advice on prompt engineering telling basically the following thing: if you are seeking advice about a topic X, start your prompt to an LLM by You are an expert in X, you have pedagogical skills, and you are very good at synthesizing…
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Prompt Ops Alternatives

What are the main alternatives for prompt ops nowadays? By prompt ops, I mean a comprehensive solution for tracking prompt engineering experiments and also registering prompts in different stages, similar to how I would with an ML model in a model…
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How does RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation ) work around limited context length?

My understanding of the RAG pipeline can be summarized with the following diagram: I understand steps 1-7 splits and vectorizes an external text data source into chunks and steps 8-11 retrieves n relevant chunks based off the user input query and…
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Does Negative Prompting Exist?

All the prompt engineering techniques I've seen seem to focus on telling the model what to do e.g. Few-Shot Prompting. Is there any value in giving the model examples of what not to do? Can you link me to any papers/techniques on the…
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