Prompt Programming is Programming in Natural Language, which avails us of an inexhaustible number of functions we know intimately but don’t have names for.
We need to learn a new methodology, but conveniently, we’ve already learned the most difficult foundations. The art of prompt programming consists in adapting our existing knowledge to the peculiarities of interacting with an autoregressive language model.
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REYNOLDS, Laria and MCDONELL, Kyle, 2021. Prompt Programming for Large Language Models: Beyond the Few-Shot Paradigm. In: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. 2021. p. 1–7. CHI EA ’21. ISBN 978-1-4503-8095-9. DOI 10.1145/3411763.3451760.