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0 pointswokwokwok2y ago0 comments

The problem is, there is a big song and dance about string template prompts.

…but, carefully crafted string templates would be a) simpler and b) arguably better with existing solutions for this task, because it’s a trivial task and you can hand massage your string template prompts for that.

So, the narrative really doesn’t make sense, unless you’re doing something hard, but the example just shows doing something easy in a very complicated way.

I get it, maybe you can scale this up better… but you’re really not showing it off well.

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okhat2y ago

@wokwokwok Okay now we disagree. This task is not easy, it's just easy to follow in one notebook. (If it were easy, the RAG score wouldn't be 26%.)

As for "carefully crafted string templates", I'm not sure what your argument here is. Are you saying you could have spent a few hours of trial and error writing 3 long prompts in a pipeline, until you matched what the machine does in 60 seconds?

Yes, you probably could have :-)

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