1/13-14/2024: Don't sleep on #prompt-engineering

The **OpenAI** Discord community engaged in diverse discussions including **prompt engineering** techniques like contrastive Chain of Thought and step back prompting, and explored **model merging** and **mixture-of-experts (MoE)** concepts. Philosophical debates on **AI consciousness** and the ethics of **AI-generated voices** highlighted concerns about AI sentience and copyright issues. Technical clarifications were made on **hyperdimensional vector space models** used in modern AI embeddings. Users also discussed **customizing GPT** with personality profiles and prompt personalization to overcome token limits, and proposed a **universal translator** feature for multilingual Discord interactions. Key contributors included longtime regular MadameArchitect and community members such as @darthgustav and @metaldrgn.