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Alex Hall bb7cf6ba20 (core) Modify prompt so that model may say it cannot help with certain requests.
Summary:
This tweaks the prompting so that the user's message is given on its own instead of as a docstring within Python. This is so that the prompt makes sense when:

- the user asks a question such as "Can you write me a formula which does ...?" rather than describing their formula as a docstring would, or
- the user sends a message that doesn't ask for a formula at all (https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1687699944315069?thread_ts=1687698078.832209&cid=C0234CPPXPA)

Also added wording for the model to refuse when the user asks for something that the model cannot do.

Because the code (and maybe in some cases the model) for non-ChatGPT models relies on the prompt consisting entirely of Python code produced by the data engine (which no longer contains the user's message) those code paths have been disabled for now. Updating them now seems like undesirable drag, I think it'd be better to revisit this when iteration/experimentation has slowed down and stabilised.

Test Plan:
Added entries to the formula dataset where the response shouldn't contain a formula, indicated by the value `1` for the new column `no_formula`.

This is somewhat successful, as the model does refuse to help in some of the new test cases, but not all. Performance on existing entries also seems a bit worse, but it's hard to distinguish this from random noise. Hopefully this can be remedied in the future with more work, e.g. automatic followup messages containing example inputs and outputs.

Reviewers: paulfitz

Reviewed By: paulfitz

Subscribers: dsagal

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3936
2023-06-27 15:57:56 +02:00
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develop.md Add command to debug the server (#533) 2023-06-20 12:49:57 -04:00
llm.md (core) Modify prompt so that model may say it cannot help with certain requests. 2023-06-27 15:57:56 +02:00
translations.md Changing domT to a default translation function for browser 2022-10-19 20:44:56 +02:00