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Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs by nomel on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:39PM (#35967447)
“You” is an optimization for the human user. Here’s some insight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35925154
Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs by startupsfail on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:17PM (#35968518)
If you see any prompt that starts with You, generally it is a poor design. Like using a “goto” or global variables.
Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs by nomel on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @09:09PM (#35970081)
This is true for something like raw GPT. For the chat models that have been specifically optimized for "you" prompts, this is false. See the discussion in the link I provided, along with the leaked copilot/bing prompts.

Or, in other words, use a model in a way that fully takes advantage of how it was specifically optimized, from the intentional burning of massive amounts of compute time/money to get it that way.

Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs by startupsfail on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:52PM (#35980384)
Bing prompt is hilarious. And so wrong in so many ways.
Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs by nomel on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @07:30PM (#35982535)
I would assume that OpenAI helped with the Microsoft prompt. Being Microsoft, and it being a front page feature, I would also assume that there are miles of powerpoint showing data in support for it.

What do you see as a better prompt? How would you test its efficacy?

Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs by Jorengarenar on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:34AM (#35971286)
Yeah, GOTO or global variables are usually a not so good idea... except in cases where those are actually the best tools for the job and any alternative makes code actually worse.

Coincidentally, the same applies to "you"

Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs by woah on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:05AM (#35971128)
Functions are an optimization for the human user