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

Prompt Field Labeling for Clarity and Structure

Code-like Prompt Templates

An engineer is tasked with creating a prompt that instructs a language model to summarize a given text. Below are two versions of the prompt they are considering.

Prompt A: "Please summarize the following text for me. The summary should be exactly two sentences long and maintain a formal tone. The text to summarize is: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Prompt B: "INSTRUCTIONS: Summarize the provided text.

CONSTRAINTS:

• Length: Exactly 2 sentences.
• Tone: Formal.

TEXT: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

What is the primary advantage of using the formatting in Prompt B over the formatting in Prompt A?

Refining a Prompt for Clarity

Evaluating Prompt Structure for a Chatbot