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Inefficiency of Long Prompts in Repetitive Tasks
The inefficiency caused by long and complex natural language prompts is particularly acute in applications where a task must be performed repeatedly. In such scenarios, inputting the same lengthy prompt a large number of times leads to significant and unnecessary computational costs.
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Ch.3 Prompting - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models Course
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Inefficiency of Long Prompts in Repetitive Tasks
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- Strategy X: For each email, the system sends a long prompt that includes a detailed, 200-word definition of each category, several examples, and the full text of the customer email.
- Strategy Y: For each email, the system sends a short prompt containing only a brief instruction ('Classify this email:') and the full text of the customer email.
From a computational cost perspective, which strategy is the most suitable for this high-volume, repetitive task, and why?
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