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		didgeoridoo 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prompt engineering playbook for programmers This is definitely something I’ve noticed — it’s not about naïve role-priming at all, but rather about language usage. “You are an expert doctor, help me with this rash I have all over” will result in a fairly useless answer, but using medical shorthand — “pt presents w bilateral erythema, need diff dx” — gets you exactly what you’re looking for.

james_marks 6 months ago [–]

If this holds up, it’s an interesting product idea you could MVP in a day.

Lay person’s description -> translate into medical shorthand -> get the expert response in shorthand -> translate back.

Liability and error is obviously problematic.

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