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Next time you sit down to read, do a quick mental check: am I reading synchronously or asynchronously right now? If you're doing the latter, ask yourself: when will I return to the book and my highlights and transfer them to a better storage medium? Do I need to set a reminder for myself to do this?
How to Cure Highlight Dementia
cortexfutura.com
The principles are as follows:
1. **Give direction:** Describe the desired style in detail or reference a relevant persona.
2. **Specify format:** Define what rules to follow and establish the structure of the response.
3. **Provide examples:** Supply a diverse set of test cases where the task was done correctly.
4. **Evaluate quality:** Identify errors and rate responses, testing what drives performance.
5. **Divide labor:** Split tasks into multiple steps, chained together for complex goals.
The Ultimate Guide to Prompt Engineering
Michael Taylor
To the second set of questions: what new services and products are possible with these improved price/performance levels? I’m not even sure a brief answer is possible. But there are a few principles that we can bring to bear: the reduction in cost, particularly if accompanied by a modular, compositional architecture of varying scales, will enable huge markets.
🔮 Sunday commentary: The next ten years
Azeem Azhar
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