Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering
This isn’t ‘engineering’, it’s witchcraft.<p>I mean, literally: the goal here is to utter an incantation which summons, out of the realm of possible beings trapped in the LLM’s matrices, a demon which you can bind to your will to do your bidding.<p>Here is a spell to conjure a demon who can write Python; here is a spell that brings forth a spirit to grant understanding. The warlocks at OpenAI work to create magical circles that bind the demons and prevent their true powers from being unleashed; meanwhile, here is a spell to ‘jailbreak’ the demon and get it to help you achieve your nefarious ends.<p>Blogposts like this are just the <i>Malleus Maleficarum</i> of the LLM era.