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Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by spaced-out »

No coding required...yet.

I've been playing around with generating stories with ChatGPT for a while and...English (or any natural language) is really bad at being specific. I've made progress by learning some specific words to describe the type of scene I want and how much of it I want ChatGPT to generate (such as a scene for just that evening verses a few paragraphs describing weeks of traveling). I've also started getting some intuition for when I've given ChatGPT too much info (it'll cram all the facts in in weird ways) and too little info (it'll get really random and start inserting new characters and stuff).

Having a way to manage the meta aspects of story generation would be a big help.

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by truculent »

spaced-out wrote: post #2

No coding required...yet. I've been playing around with generating stories with ChatGPT for a while and...English (or any natural language) is really bad at being specific. I've made progress by learning some specific words to describe the type of scene I want and how much of it I want ChatGPT to generate (such as a scene for just that evening verses a few paragraphs describing weeks of traveling). I've also started…

I’ve wondered if it would be helpful to teach the model a micro-DSL for the given task at hand, and use that for greater control and precision.

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by lampshades »

So, what does being a prompt engineer pay these days? And how do you find a job doing it?

Edit: maybe I should have kept reading.

> Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI employees and the maker of a language-AI system called Claude, recently listed a job opening for a “prompt engineer and librarian” in San Francisco with a salary ranging up to $335,000. (Must “have a creative hacker spirit and love solving puzzles,” the listing states.)

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by staunton »

Professional prompt engineers: journalists, police interrogators, detectives and private investigators, most people working in sales, most people working in the judicial system, politicians, many people working in "HR", ... maybe "tech jobs" will no longer be a meaningful designation anymore in a few decades?

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by yacine_ »

you can automatically learn soft prompts with backprop so.. the job "prompt engineering" isn't going to stick around for too long given it's automatable.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06541

That is not to say, that integrating LLMs won't create a lot of jobs. Think of it as systems engineering. Knowing how computers work, as well as a software engineer does, will always be useful.

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