Tan: Asking AI to iteratively update its own prompt compounds output quality
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Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, breaks down his meta-prompting framework for video scripting.
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“Get the script to where I felt really good about it, and then at the last point, I would say, given what we did in this session to improve the prompt, output the next version of the prompt. And so now I've done this about 20 or 30 times, and so now I have a thing that has all of the different tricks”
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