Does Persona Prompting Actually Work?

We did a deep dive on all things related to role prompting and using personas in your prompts. We go over when it makes the most sense to include a persona in your prompt, and a framework to automate the process.
Templates:
Persona Generator (Jekyll and Hyde)
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ExpertPrompt
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Resources:
Role-Prompting: Does Adding Personas to Your Prompts Really Make a Difference?
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When “A Helpful Assistant” Is Not Really Helpful: Personas in System Prompts Do Not Improve Performances of Large Language Models
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Persona is a Double-edged Sword: Mitigating the Negative Impact of Role-playing Prompts in Zero-shot Reasoning Tasks
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ExpertPrompting: Instructing Large Language Models to be Distinguished Experts
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Better Zero-Shot Reasoning with Role-Play Prompting
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Is Role Prompting Effective
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Other Resources:
Few shot prompting guide
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In Context Learning Guide
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More info on PromptHub's free prompt generator:
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[@sleeplessdev7204]

Really interesting and detailed breakdown, thanks!

[@PromptHub_AI]

Our pleasure!

[@TheLouisEric]

Super interesting! subscribed.

[@PromptHub_AI]

Glad to hear it!

[@ShamusMac]

Re. Idiot > Genius... Some nuance here? Err time I start to get wide-eyed at benchmarks and take them seriously, a result like this comes along like an ice bucket of water. It kinda debunks the whole idea imho. Save your tokens.

[@PromptHub_AI]

Hey Shamus, for more on the idiot vs genius persona testing, check out the link to the learn prompting article in the description