Eugene’s article on prompting is one of the best things I’ve read recently, full stop. As also noted by Kyle, try starting with 0.8 temperature and lower only if necessary, even for deterministic use cases[1] [2].

Footnotes

  1. https://eugeneyan.com/writing/prompting/#selecting-a-temperature ↩

  2. https://twitter.com/corbtt/status/1801026166020833457 ↩

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