Multilingual Prompting
Domain: Prompt Engineering
🎯 Motivation
LLMs can handle multiple languages, but phrasing prompts in the target language or specifying language improves quality.
📋 Concrete Example
Instead of ‘Translate this to Chinese’ use ‘Translate this to Traditional Chinese, as spoken in Hong Kong.’ Or write the prompt in Chinese directly: ‘Summarize this article in 3 points, in Cantonese.’
🔗 Analogy
Asking a bilingual friend for help - if you want a Chinese translation, you get better results asking in Chinese (‘how do you say… in Chinese?’) than in English. Specifying the language and variant helps.