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It's maddening to me how little good writing there is out there on effective prompting.

Here's an example: what's the best prompt to use to summarize an article?

That feels like such an obvious thing, and yet I haven't even seen that being well explored.

It's actually a surprisingly deep topic. I like using tricks like "directly quote the sentences that best illustrate the overall themes" and "identify the most surprising ideas", but I'd love to see a thorough breakdown of all the tricks I haven't seen yet.



This whitepaper is the best I've found so far, at least for covering general prompting techniques.

https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-prompt-engineering


This comment has some advice from Simon Willison on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897666

Maybe you should ask him. lol


It seems a little counterintuitive, but you can ask an LLM to improve a prompt. They are quite good at it.


Github (Marketplace) shipped a little ui to -improve- prompts here on their new AI marketplace https://github.com/marketplace




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