Why Johnny Can’t Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts

Scholarly study of issues on how to create prompts for non experts in AI. 1) Assuming a prompt that works in one circumstance will work in all cases 2) Assuming if AI doesn’t do something the first time, it can’t do it 3) Not systematically testing and experimenting

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Why Johnny Can’t Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts

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2023-06-23

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2023-04-26

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Scholarly study of issues on how to create prompts for non experts in AI. 1) Assuming a prompt that works in one circumstance will work in all cases 2) Assuming if AI doesn’t do something the first time, it can’t do it 3) Not systematically testing and experimenting

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