Of prompts and engineers

Tips, tricks, best practices and philosophical AI debates abound when OpenAI ambassador Bram Adams joins Natalie, Johnny & Mat to discuss prompt engineering.

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Featuring:

• Bram Adams – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• DJ by Spotify
• Stenography
• RLHF
• Phind
• Karpathy building a kind of Jarvis
• Ship of Theseus
• microsoft/guidance

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's Go Time!
(00:45) - Introducing our guests
(10:02) - Intro to prompt engineering
(12:34) - Lay person prompt engineering
(21:29) - Prompt hacking
(25:20) - Sponsor: Changelog News
(26:45) - "Her" isn't so far off!
(35:48) - AI is inevitable
(41:20) - Creativity in AI
(44:56) - Practical prompt engineering
(49:02) - Unpopular opinions!
(49:43) - Bram's unpop
(56:10) - AI implants
(1:00:37) - Johnny's unpop
(1:03:52) - Natalie's unpop
(1:06:45) - Outro