5 items tagged “rileygoodside”
2023
Examples of weird GPT-4 behavior for the string “ davidjl”. GPT-4, when told to repeat or otherwise process the string “ davidjl” (note the leading space character), treats it as “jndl” or “jspb” or “JDL” instead. It turns out “ davidjl” has its own single token in the tokenizer: token ID 23282, presumably dating back to the GPT-2 days.
Riley Goodside refers to these as “glitch tokens”.
This token might refer to Reddit user davidjl123 who ranks top of the league for the old /r/counting subreddit, with 163,477 posts there which presumably ended up in older training data. # 8th June 2023, 9:29 am
I think prompt engineering can be divided into “context engineering”, selecting and preparing relevant context for a task, and “prompt programming”, writing clear instructions. For an LLM search application like Perplexity, both matter a lot, but only the final, presentation-oriented stage of the latter is vulnerable to being echoed.
— Riley Goodside # 23rd January 2023, 11:15 pm
2022
“You are GPT-3”. Genius piece of prompt design by Riley Goodside. “A long-form GPT-3 prompt for assisted question-answering with accurate arithmetic, string operations, and Wikipedia lookup. Generated IPython commands (in green) are pasted into IPython and output is pasted back into the prompt (no green).” Uses “Out[” as a stop sequence to ensure GPT-3 stops at each generated iPython prompt rather than inventing the output itself. # 17th October 2022, 4:35 am
Show HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else). Riley Goodside is my favourite Twitter follow for GPT-3 tips. Here he describes a powerful prompt pattern he’s designed which lets you generate extremely complex code output by asking GPT-3 to fill in $$areas like this$$ with different patterns, then stitch them together into full HTML or other source code files. It’s really clever. # 20th August 2022, 9:33 pm