Pa STRATEGIES FOR (A)1) Write Clear Instructions These models can't read your mind. If outputs are too long, ask for brief replies. If outputs are too simple, ask for expert-level writing. Tf you dislike the format, demonstrate the format you'd Toe Root The less the model has to guess at what you want, the more likely you'll get it. TACTICS: a Include details in your query to get more relevant Eee a) Ask the model to adopt a persona. |] Use delimiters to clearly indicate distinct parts of the input. va Specify the steps required to complete a task. il Provide examples. Specify the desired length of the fo] Uhdolbiay i]2) Provide Reference Text Language models can confidently invent fake answers, especially when asked about esoteric topics or for citations and URLs. In the same way that a sheet of notes can help a student do better on a test, providing reference text to these models can help in answering with fewer fabrications. TACTICS: Utara Mille Rok me Ree Unie Basem taille moka kel eile) noe aka i3) Split Complex Tasks Just as it is good practice in software engineering to decompose a complex system into a set of modular components, the same is true of tasks submitted to a language model. Complex tasks tend to have higher error rates than simpler tasks. Furthermore, complex tasks can often be re-defined as a ola aio melt tt) 9D (Tem =k Ua ela mel Le el Mem -Y-1al 1g tasks are used to construct the inputs to later tasks. TACTICS: A Use intent classification to identify the most relevant instructions for a user query. ® For dialogue applications that require very long conversations, summarize or filter previous dialogue. @® summarize long documents piecewise and construct a TOMEI mace Th i]4) Give the Model Time to om alta). If asked to multiply 17 by 28, you might not know it instantly, but can still work it out with time. Similarly, models make more reasoning errors when trying to answer right away, rather than taking time to work out an answer. Asking for a "chain of thought" before an answer can help the model reason its way toward correct answers more foc] TACTICS: @ Instruct the model to work out its own solution before rushing to a conclusion. El Use inner monologue or a sequence of queries to hide the model's reasoning process. Ld Ask the model if it missed anything on previous oe5) Use External Tools Compensate for the weaknesses of the model by feeding it the outputs of other tools. For example, a text retrieval system (sometimes called RAG or retrieval augmented generation) can tell the model about relevant documents. A code execution engine like OpenAl's Code Interpreter can help the model do math and run code. Si-Be-) aera ome la Ue MET MOlmiiCellAl aN me ar el} rather than by a language model, offload it to get the ella) moan TACTICS: @ Use embeddings-based search to implement efficient andi crel* (Maida MU Meets Rtcen tn ON ame se-Tcell ci calculations or call external APIs. B Give the model access to specific functions. i]6) Test Changes Systematically Improving performance is easier if you can measure it. In some cases a modification to a prompt will achieve better performance on a few isolated examples but lead to Nolet mente] Mle tar aeRO LAN MUSA 1k alee ee) examples. Therefore to be sure that a change is net positive to performance it may be necessary to define a comprehensive test suite (also known an as an "eval"). TACTIC: a Evaluate model outputs with reference to gold- standard answers. i)