Optimizing Prompt Length and Specificity for Enhanced AI Chatbot Responses
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Language models have revolutionized natural language processing by greatly improving text generation and comprehension. Optimizing their functioning is related to how one designs prompts because the kind and quality of response produced affects the nature of response that is generated. This article explores the impact of prompt length and specificity on AI chatbots’ capabilities concerning accuracy, fluency, and relevance of generated responses. We present evidence that careful prompt engineering is severely lacking to improve conversational performance, and illustrate this using studies and experiments on the Cornell Movie Dialogs Corpus; thus, providing interesting guidelines to the developers and researchers interested in improving chatbot responses
Language: English
Topic: Speech and dialogue systems
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403005869