Illocutionary Force In Prompt Engineering

While working with early GitHub Copilot I would use a lot of short utterances. (e.g., &ldquo;can we do that?&rdquo; or &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not right.&rdquo;) I found that the model often would ignore the context of the conversation and answer in an overly literal way. I then would be forced to undo any changes and re-prompt with a more explicit request. Wanting to fix this problem, I thought…