Example of a Prompt Template for Machine Translation

Code-like Prompt Templates

A developer is testing different ways to ask a language model to translate the English sentence 'The cat sat on the mat' into French. Consider the following three approaches:

1. Translate the following English text to French: The cat sat on the mat
2. English: The cat sat on the mat Question: What is the French translation of this English sentence? Answer:
3. `def translate_to_french(english_text): """Translates the given English text to French.""" return model.translate(english_text)

input = "The cat sat on the mat" output = translate_to_french(input)`

Which option correctly identifies the format of each approach?

Examples of Instruction-like Prompts for Language Models

Improving Idiomatic Machine Translation

Constructing Machine Translation Prompts