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• Put instructions at the beginning of the prompt and use ### or """ to separate the instruction and context

• Articulate the desired output format through examples (example 1, example 2).

• Start with zero-shot, then few-shot (example), neither of them worked, then fine-tune

• Reduce “fluffy” and imprecise descriptions

• Instead of just saying what not to do, say what to do instead

• Code Generation Specific - Use “leading words” to nudge the model toward a particular pattern

• Best practices for prompt engineering with OpenAI API

• How to give clear and effective instructions to GPT-3 and Codex

• here are specific prompt formats that work particularly well and align better with the tasks at hand.

• Rules of Thumb and Examples

• "{text input here}"

• is a placeholder for actual text/context

• 1. Use the latest model

• we generally recommend using the latest, most capable models.

• November 2022, t

• best options are

• “text-davinci-003”

• model for text generation

• “code-davinci-002”