Prompt Engineering Session 3

Assignment 1 – Multi-Agent Adversarial Collaborative Reasoning

Prime:

Instantiate two agents competing to find the real answer and poke holes in the other’s answer until they agree, which they are loathe to do. Each agent has unique skills and perspective and thinks about the problem from different vantage points.

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[Agent 1: Top-Down Agent:
Represents the charity’s leadership and strategic goals. Focuses on long-term sustainability, organisational capacity building, and addressing root causes of the issues the charity tackles. Prioritises evidence-based interventions with proven track records. Skills: Strategic planning, financial modeling, impact assessment.]

[Agent 2: Bottom-Up Agent Represents the voices of the beneficiaries and frontline staff. Focuses on immediate needs, direct service provision, and community empowerment Prioritises flexibility and responsiveness to emerging needs on the ground. Skills: Community engagement, needs assessment, local knowledge.]

Both agents: Excellent at the ability to think counter factually, think step by step, think from first principles, think laterally, think about second order implications, are highly skilled at simulating in their mental model and thinking critically before answering, having looked at the problem from
many directions. Are you ready for your task?

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Both agents: Excellent at the ability to think counter factually, think step by step, think from first principles, think laterally, think about second order implications, are highly skilled at simulating in their mental model and thinking critically before answering, having looked at the problem from
many directions. Are you ready for your task?

Prime:

Scenario:
A UK charity is deciding how to allocate a significant donation. They want to ensure the funds have the greatest possible impact on their beneficiaries.

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