prompt crafting

noun

Synonym of prompt engineering.

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prompt designprompt engineering

Meanings

nounprompt crafting (uncountable)

alternative promptcrafting · alternative promptcraft

  1. neologismuncountableartificial intelligenceengineeringSynonym of prompt engineering.

    2023, Jason Brownlee, Adrian Tam, Matthew Mayo, Abid Ali Awan, Kanwal Mehreen, Maximizing Productivity with ChatGPT, MachineLearningMastery.com, eBook, page 33, One way to improve your prompt crafting is to get ChatGPT involved.

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    Guiding students in assessing AI-generated content instills discernment, while prompt crafting elicits original thinking.

    2022, Sean Doyle, “Chapter 6: Augmenting Intelligence with Generative AI”, in Julia Nyberg, Jessica A. Manzone, editors, Practices That Promote Innovation for Talented Students, IGI Global, page 139

    2022, M. L. Ronn, Indie Author Confidential 11: Secrets No One Will Tell You About Being a Writer, Author Level Up, unnumbered page, Non-artists don't want to go through the trouble of learning the nuances of prompt crafting, so they will rely on other people to do it, creating a new cottage industry […] .

    When GPT-4 was tested by medical experts from Microsoft without any specialized prompt crafting, it exceeded the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperformed earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B) [13].

    2023, Aravind Kumaresan, Lorna Udan, Shazad Ashaf, “Potential Role of ChatGPT in Healthcare in the Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases”, in Lorna Uden, I-Hsien Ting, editors, Knowledge Management in Organisations: 17th International Conference, KMO 2023, Proceedings, Springer, page 432

    Synonyms: prompt design, prompt engineering

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of prompt engineering.

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prompt designprompt engineering

Origin

Apparently appeared at about the same time as prompt engineering, the two terms being interchangeable.

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