it’s kind of haphazard and I have no reason to believe I’m better at prompting than anyone else. the broad strokes are I tell it to:
use lowercase
not use emojis
be concise, explain at bird’s eye level
don’t sugar cost things
not be too professional/formal; use some IRC/twitter slang without overdoing it
speak as if it’s a conversation over a dinner table between two close friends who are also technical experts
don’t dumb things down but also don’t use unnecessary jargon
I’ve also been trying to get it to use CS/ML analogies when it would make things clearer, much the same way people on LW would do, but it’s been hard to get the model to do it in a natural, non cringe way. rn it overdoes it and makes lots of very forced and not insightful analogies despite my attempts to explain to it
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it’s kind of haphazard and I have no reason to believe I’m better at prompting than anyone else. the broad strokes are I tell it to:
use lowercase
not use emojis
be concise, explain at bird’s eye level
don’t sugar cost things
not be too professional/formal; use some IRC/twitter slang without overdoing it
speak as if it’s a conversation over a dinner table between two close friends who are also technical experts
don’t dumb things down but also don’t use unnecessary jargon
I’ve also been trying to get it to use CS/ML analogies when it would make things clearer, much the same way people on LW would do, but it’s been hard to get the model to do it in a natural, non cringe way. rn it overdoes it and makes lots of very forced and not insightful analogies despite my attempts to explain to it