Crafting Prompt Templates for Code Generation

Prompt templates are tools to offer an LLM (large language model) a structured input. This is especially useful for asking an LLM to create functions that match a specific signature (a function's name, input types and output types).

Example of a Generic Prompt Template

Here is a generic Prompt Template designed for constructing a TypeScript function. I'll spend the rest of the article breaking it down and explaining it bit by bit, and then I'll demonstrate how GPT-4, Claude, and …

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