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Items tagged promptengineering in Mar, 2023

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You’ll often find prompt engineers come from a history, philosophy, or English language background, because it’s wordplay. You’re trying to distill the essence or meaning of something into a limited number of words.

Albert Phelps # 31st March 2023, 5:54 pm

Schillace Laws of Semantic AI (via) Principles for prompt engineering against large language models, developed by Microsoft’s Sam Schillace. # 30th March 2023, 12:20 am

Prompt Engineering. Extremely detailed introduction to the field of prompt engineering by Lilian Weng, who leads applied research at OpenAI. # 21st March 2023, 5:12 pm

A conversation about prompt engineering with CBC Day 6

I’m on Canadian radio this morning! I was interviewed by Peter Armstrong for CBC Day 6 about the developing field of prompt engineering.

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Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat (via) “If allowed by the user, Bing Chat can see currently open websites. We show that an attacker can plant an injection in a website the user is visiting, which silently turns Bing Chat into a Social Engineer who seeks out and exfiltrates personal information.” This is a really clever attack against the Bing + Edge browser integration. Having language model chatbots consume arbitrary text from untrusted sources is a huge recipe for trouble. # 1st March 2023, 5:29 am