RATE

Get the GenAI tool to rate its own answer, and to state why it gives that rating.

Recently, there was interest in the ‘Do better’ response to outputs – some prompt engineers discovered that after a prompt produced output, simply asking the tool to ‘Do better’ in the next prompt was sufficient to improve the result.

If tried repeatedly, there was some improvement for the first couple of uses, but quite quickly the output degenerated to nonsense or hallucination. On reflection, it appeared that the tool had tried variations that could be considered as ‘better’ in the first few repetitions – then ran out of sensible variations to offer.

Asking for a rating and the evidence behind the rating allows you to be specific about the ‘Do better’ prompt. So, the tool may state that the audience is poorly addressed in its output. In this case you can frame the next prompt around something like “Improve the way you tailor your answer to the audience specified”.