Prompting advanced

Meta-Prompting

Using a model to write, critique, or improve prompts for another model.

Meta-prompting hands the prompt-writing task to the model itself: ask it to draft a prompt, then to find the ambiguities in it. It works because models are often better at spotting underspecification than people are at avoiding it. Pair it with real evaluation or you are just generating confident-sounding prompts.

In practice: ‘Here is my prompt and three bad outputs. What is ambiguous about it?’