AIEthan Mollick Prefers Personalized LLM Explanations Over ELI5
He recommends asking LLMs to draw on users existing knowledge rather than using generic ELI5 prompts.
TLDR
Associate Professor Ethan Mollick posted that he dislikes ELI5 as the default prompt for simplifying topics. He argues that research shows drawing connections to what a person already knows improves memory and context building. Mollick states that users are not children and do not need things dumbed down. Instead he favors prompts that ask an LLM to explain a topic using the users prior knowledge. Engineer Thariq Shihipar replied that the ELI5 label is misleading because the prompt actually seeks an explanation without assuming domain expertise. The exchange appears among visible posts discussing LLM prompting techniques.