Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

LLMs generally but more so small models will keep going and generate seemingly unrelated things. On the frontend tools like Copilot and Ghostwriter do a lot of things like use stopwords or simply not show completions outside a single block.

As for your prompt, it's following your prompt a little too closely and generating just the function. You can however condition it that this is the start of the program it will do the import, e.g.

   # python function that returns a random integer between min and max
   import
This is in fact a suggestion from OpenAI on best practices for prompting called "leading words" https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-f...



Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: