5 Strategies to Improve Prompt Engineering
Last Updated on July 24, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Benson Ruan
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Have you ever felt frustrated with the content generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, finding it far from meeting your expectations? Do you sometimes feel that search engines are more useful than ChatGPT in certain situations? The key reason behind this lies in the quality of the prompts we provide to AI writing tools.
In simple terms, if you feed garbage to ChatGPT, it will likely to return garbage. The problem is not usually with the AI itself but rather with the limitations and vagueness of the inputs we provide.
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