Piloting Copilot and Codex: Hot Temperature, Cold Prompts, or Black Magic?. (arXiv:2210.14699v1 [cs.SE])

Language models are promising solutions for tackling increasing complex
problems. In software engineering, they recently attracted attention in code
assistants, with programs automatically written in a given programming language
from a programming task description in natural language. They have the
potential to save time and effort when writing code. However, these systems are
currently poorly understood, preventing them from being used optimally. In this
paper, we investigate the various input parameters of two language models, and
conduct a study to …

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