This podcast episode dives deep into the intricate world of prompt engineering, featuring insights from Sander Schulhoff, the author of "The Prompt Report." He discusses his journey in AI and emphasizes the significance of various prompting techniques, including his findings on the effectiveness of role prompting and emotion prompting on contemporary language models. Sander shares his systematic survey of over 1,600 papers on prompting, outlines essential design principles for effective few-shot prompting, and explores innovative categories such as thought generation and automatic prompt engineering. The episode culminates in a discussion on the emerging challenges and opportunities in multimodal prompting and the imperative need for robust evaluation methods, leaving listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the evolving landscape of AI prompting.
