Of prompts and engineers

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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 – Website, GitHub, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

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

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Chapter

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Introducing our guests (00:00:45)

3. Intro to prompt engineering (00:10:02)

4. Lay person prompt engineering (00:12:34)

5. Prompt hacking (00:21:29)

6. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:25:20)

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7. "Her" isn't so far off! (00:26:45)

8. AI is inevitable (00:35:48)

9. Creativity in AI (00:41:20)

10. Practical prompt engineering (00:44:56)

11. Unpopular opinions! (00:49:02)

12. Bram's unpop (00:49:43)

13. AI implants (00:56:10)

14. Johnny's unpop (01:00:37)

15. Natalie's unpop (01:03:52)

16. Outro (01:06:45)