--- title: Prompt structure affects LLM performance by up to 40%,... description: Prompt optimization plays a crucial role in the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). This study examines how different prompt templates, such as plain... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/prompt-structure-affects-llm-performance-by-up-to-40-challenging-fixed-templates--tgry2perm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Prompt structure affects LLM performance by up to 40%, challenging fixed templates. | daily.dev og:description: Prompt optimization plays a crucial role in the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). This study examines how different prompt templates, such as plain... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/prompt-structure-affects-llm-performance-by-up-to-40-challenging-fixed-templates--tgry2perm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tgry2pERm.png og:image:alt: Prompt structure affects LLM performance by up to 40%, challenging fixed templates. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Prompt structure affects LLM performance by up to 40%, challenging fixed templates. **[Build With GenAI](https://daily.dev/sources/buildwithgenai)** · [@chienvu62](https://daily.dev/chienvu62) · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Prompt optimization plays a crucial role in the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). This study examines how different prompt templates, such as plain text, Markdown, JSON, and YAML, affect the performance of models like GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 across tasks like natural language reasoning, code generation, and translation. Results indicate that GPT-3.5-turbo's performance in code translation can vary by up to 40% depending on the template used, whereas GPT-4 shows more robustness to these variations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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