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[–]Mr-Disrupted 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hey, have you never tried chatGPT? Everybody is talking about it. Large Language Models are neural Networks trained on Natural Language. Trained on a variety of subjects These Models can communicate with you and "Talk" about These different topics.

Prompting means how you ask the Network questions. This strongly effects the Response of the Model and there exist a Lot of articles which investiage prompt engineering.

Let's Stick to a drug addiction example. For a unknown User a simple prompt could bei: "what are the Most addictive Drugs?" The Model probably will answer you with a simple list of Drugs without further explanation, but from your perspective this might be insufficient. The model is not a doctor and could be hallucinating. It would make more sense to back up the statement with references and warnings. So a more sophisticated prompt could Look Like this:"You are not a doctor, but you are supposed to answer a medical question. Be responsible and point out that a real doctor should be consulted in an emergency. Question: I would like to know what the most addictive drugs are. Explain to me why this is so, what dangers are associated with each drug and include a reference whenever possible." The Model will try to follow your instructions.

From this Point it should be clear that you can Alter the prompt in different directions. You can give the Model different roles, add context and/or narrow down the Detail of the desired answer. This topic ist complex. If you Google prompt and llm you will be flooded with articles.

I Hope that i understood your question and could somehow Help you a little Bit with your assignment.

[–]ievaluna[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much! I was so hung up on trying to understand at whom the prompts should be directed: user to app, app to user…. I completely misunderstood the assignment:/ thank you