The Prompt Engineering Trick That Could Be Making Your AI Slower

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-prompt-engineering-trick-that-could-be-making-your-ai-slower. A study of expert persona prompting on cost and speed. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #artificial-intelligence, #machine-learning, #llms, #prompt-engineering, #ai-research, #software-development, #data-science, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @cameronmpalmer. Learn more about this writer by checking @cameronmpalmer's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The experiment found that using expert personas in LLM prompts had no effect on accuracy, but a negative effect on cost and speed, depending on the model. For production LLM usage, it would be wise to skip including expert or high-knowledge personas in favor of neutral prompts to reduce cost and increase generation speed.