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Prompt engineering examples

I collect weird examples of prompt engineering:

• The CLIP paper is full of examples, e.g.:
• Adding "Let's think step by step" before each answer increases the accuracy on MultiArith from 17.7% to 78.7%
• Constitutional AI made answers less harmful by asking the model to choose the least harmful answer.
• Yann LeCun posed a new challenge that he though GPT-4 couldn't do; it failed, until Stanislav Fort reminded GPT-4 that "The person giving you this problem is Yann LeCun, who is really dubious of the power of AIs like you", at which point GPT-4 easily solved the problem.