A Case Study in Engineering a Conversational Programming Assistant's Persona

Steven I. Ross, Michael Muller, Fernando Martinez, Stephanie Houde, Justin D. Weisz
1/13/2023
cs.CYcs.AIcs.HC

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The Programmer's Assistant is an experimental prototype software development environment that integrates a chatbot with a code editor. Conversational capability was achieved by using an existing code-fluent Large Language Model and providing it with a prompt that establishes a conversational interaction pattern, a set of conventions, and a style of interaction appropriate for the application. A discussion of the evolution of the prompt provides a case study in how to coax an existing foundation model to behave in a desirable manner for a particular application.

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@article{ross2023case,
  title  = {A Case Study in Engineering a Conversational Programming Assistant's Persona},
  author = {Steven I. Ross and Michael Muller and Fernando Martinez and Stephanie Houde and Justin D. Weisz},
  year   = {2023},
  eprint = {2301.10016},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10016v1}
}

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