Prompt Engineering

Lil'Log · 3 years ago · 17

Prompt engineering is a set of methods for communicating with language models to achieve desired outputs without modifying the model weights, requiring empirical testing since effectiveness varies across different models. The approach relies on experimentation and heuristics to determine which prompting strategies work best for autoregressive language models. This technique enables alignment and control over model behavior through input design rather than model retraining.