Prompt Engineering Showcase: Your Best Practical LLM Prompting Hacks

Ah, I should’ve clarified it was back with completions and I would end the prompt with…

15)

Then it would complete the list down to 1)…

I seem to recall something years ago about labeling output to “count”… but not with JSON as that’s relatively new.

And no, jailbreaks are more Lounge material I’d say. :wink:

Just trying to get something positive going. We’ve got a ton of super smart people here (and me!) Small smile.

Seriously, though, more tips like…

  • Better to repeat instructions in system and user prompt?
  • Best to put X at the beginning or end of prompt?

I’ll admit that with as good as the models are becoming, “hacks” aren’t really needed much anymore. Even negative prompting seems to be getting a little better?

I asked Chat-Gippity to look at our community and come up with topic ideas. This was the best out of twenty, so… I planted a seed, not expecting it to grow.

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