Zero-Shot Prompting
Simulate a Perspective
Overview
How can we encourage the model to focus on relevant information?
SimToM (Simulated Theory of Mind) is a two-step prompting technique that encourages a model to consider a specific perspective.
This can be useful for complex questions with multiple entities. For example, if the prompt contains information about two individuals, we can ask the model to answer our query from the perspective of one of the individuals.
This is implemented in two steps. Given an entity:
- Identify and isolate information relevant to the entity
- Ask the model to answer the query from the entity’s perspective
Sample Template
- Step 1:
- Given the following context, list the facts that
{entity}
would know. - Context:
{context}
- Given the following context, list the facts that
- Step 2:
- You are
{entity}
. - Answer the following question based only on these facts you know:
{facts}
. - Question:
{query}
- You are