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How are you using it? In my experience asking factual questions lead to answers so inaccurate that you might as well not bother.

Are you prompting it differently to me, or do you have some strategy to filter out the BS?

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I dunno what to say, but I’m also someone who very rarely gets factually incorrect data aside from numbers, dates and quotes.

I make a point to ask for a completion that I know won’t depend on an exact factoid.

If I do need an exact factoid, I have a tool I made myself based on this approach:

https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...

This is advanced stuff. Thank you for writing it down.

Wow this is the best content I have seen on prompt engineering, it feels much more like computer science than the usual prompt engineering recipes. This formalism of analytic augmentation and higher order augmentations seems like it is ripe for some kind of library or dsl to build and evaluate and monitor these processes. But somehow I feel like these capabilities will become so standard that they will be incorporated into the official apis.

[edit] Just noticed it looks like you are working on just that. I will keep an eye on this! https://github.com/williamcotton/transynthetical-engine

Thanks for brightening up my day and giving me some more inspiration to work on these kinds of things!

I use it with documents I shred into sentences and embed with ada-002. This makes it spot on when talking about a given document. https://mitta.us/

This is seriously cool. Bots for the people!

Thanks! :) Been working on it a LONG time. Getting ready to launch...

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