提示设计

I'm usually averse to the common habit of trying to find old-world analogues to new-world phenomena. So please bear with me as I commit that exact sin: let me present the case for why prompting should be called prompt design and be likened to web design.

通常我不喜欢将新世界现象与旧世界类比的习惯。所以请原谅我犯下了这个错误：让我来为什么提示应该被称为提示设计并类比于网页设计的案例。

I view prompting as communicating with a time-constrained human. While LLM-specific techniques are certainly helpful (most notably chain-of-thought), I've found that one of the best ways to improve performance is to just have extremely clear and high-quality instructions, similarly to how clarity and conciseness helps real humans understand better too.

我将提示视为与时间受限的人类进行沟通的过程。虽然LLM特定的技术确实有帮助（尤其是思维链），但我发现提高性能的最佳方法之一就是提供极其清晰和高质量的说明，类似于清晰和简洁有助于真实人类更好地理解。

Prompting-as-clear-communication makes prompting sound like writing. Most of the prompting I am doing, however, is parametric: I have a number of input variables, and need to dynamically adapt my prompt to those.

提示作为清晰的沟通使提示听起来像是写作。然而，我所做的大部分提示都是参数化的：我有一些输入变量，并且需要根据这些动态调整我的提示。

Hence, prompting-as-clear-communication-with-dynamic-input feels like the most accurate characterization.

因此，提示作为清晰的与动态输入的沟通感觉是最准确的描述。

What other field is about communicating clearly with dynamic input? Web design.

还有哪个领域是关于与动态输入进行清晰沟通的呢？网页设计。

Let's list out all the similarities. Prompting and web design both:

让我们列出所有的相似之处。提示和网页设计都：

require clarity, and have communication as the primary goal;
需要清晰明了，并以沟通为主要目标；
need to respond to dynamic content, unlike writing or magazine layout; and
需要对动态内容进行响应，不同于书写或杂志布局；以及
need to adapt their content to different sizes — screen sizes for web design, context windows for prompting.
需要根据不同的尺寸进行内容适应 —— 网页设计的屏幕尺寸，提示的上下文窗口。

In my experience from doing both prompting and web design, I've also found that I have similar developer preferences in the two areas:

根据我在提示和网页设计方面的经验，我还发现我在这两个领域有类似的开发者偏好：

Looking at the actual prompt is super important, just like looking at the rendered website is super important. I cannot design a website if I have to simulate t...