Perfecting Prompts for GPT: 14 steps for harnessing the power of questions

By Mark Huck

There's a new conversationalist on the block, willing to talk with you ad infinitum, ad nauseam. It is called ChatGPT or, more recently due to a Microsoft investment, Bing. Both it and its underpinning GPT-4, however, are only as useful as the questions you ask. The better your question, the better the answer. Perfecting Prompts guides you toward this precision, with a detailed explanation of 14 different techniques to refine your query. Includes a 2-year subscription to GPTAnalytica's PromptBuilder tool. Contents:

1 Preface
2 A short history of intelligence
. . . 2.1 What is "intelligence"?
. . . 2.2 Intelligence and humans
. . . 2.3 Intelligence and computing
. . . 2.4 Artificial intelligence
. . . 2.5 Generative AI
. . . 2.6 Conversant AI
. . . 2.7 The Promethean Moment
3 Models and sources 27
. . . 3.1 Natural Language Processing (NLP)
. . . 3.2 Language Modeling (LM)
. . . 3.3 Pre-GPT Language Models
. . . 3.4 GPT Language Models
. . . . . . 3.4.1 From data to training set
. . . . . . 3.4.2 Limitations and bias
. . . 3.5 Common Crawl
. . . 3.6 WebText data set
. . . . . . 3.6.1 Test set
. . . 3.7 Wikipedia
. . . 3.8 Quality of sources
. . . 3.9 Google
4 GPT-3
. . . 4.1 Tokens
. . . 4.2 Parameters
. . . 4.3 GPT-3 and ChatGPT
. . . . . . 4.3.1 GPT-3.5
5 GPT-4
6 ChatGPT
7 Using GPT and ChatGPT in OpenAI
7.2 ChatGPT playground
7.3 Programmatic use of OpenAI
. . . 7.3.1 Import the openai library
. . . 7.3.2 An example chat API call
8 Prompt engineering
. . . 8.1 Misunderstanding in human communication
. . . 8.2 Misunderstanding in ChatGPT
. . . 8.3 Model capabilities depend on context
. . . 8.4 How to perfect your prompt
. . . . . . 8.4.1 Provide quality data
. . . . . . 8.4.2 Check your settings
. . . . . . 8.4.3 Use plain language to describe your inputs and outputs
. . . . . . 8.4.4 Show the API how to respond to any case (classify)
. . . . . . 8.4.5 Add context
. . . . . . 8.4.6 Include helpful information up-front
. . . . . . 8.4.7 Give examples
. . . . . . 8.4.8 Length of response
. . . . . . 8.4.9 Define a role
. . . . . . 8.4.10 Be more specific
. . . . . . 8.4.11 Divide a complex task into simpler tasks
. . . . . . 8.4.12 Prompt the model to explain before answering
. . . . . . 8.4.13 Ask for explanations before the answer
. . . . . . 8.4.14 Fine-tune
. . . 8.5 Additional techniques
. . . . . . 8.5.1 Selection-inference prompting
. . . . . . 8.5.2 Faithful reasoning architecture
. . . . . . 8.5.3 Least-to-most prompting
. . . 8.6 Related ideas
. . . . . . 8.6.1 Maieutic prompting
. . . 8.7 Extensions
. . . . . . 8.7.1 Self-consistency
. . . . . . 8.7.2 Verifiers
. . . 8.8 Theories of reliability
. . . . . . 8.8.1 Probabilistic graphical models
9 Act-as prompts
10 Prompt templates
11 Template libraries
12 Prompt generators
13 GPTAnalytica PromptBuilder
. . . 13.1 Obtain your OpenAI API key
. . . 13.2 Register at GPTAnalytica
. . . 13.3 Launch the tool
. . . 13.4 Build your prompt
. . . . . . 13.4.1 Select a role
. . . . . . 13.4.2 Select an action
. . . . . . 13.4.3 Select an output
. . . . . . 13.4.4 Select an input
. . . . . . 13.4.5 Write your input text
. . . . . . 13.4.6 Add above information
. . . . . . 13.4.7 Step-by-step
. . . 13.5 Refining PromptBuilder
. . . . . . 13.5.1 Comparing prompts in PromptBuilder
. . . . . . 13.5.2 Comparing prompts in OpenAI playground

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BXN6QNSN
• ISBN13: 9798386780357
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"