The Boolean Generator is a powerful generator on Pulsar to expeditiously craft Boolean suited towards the topic of your choosing. However, it can take some practice to get exactly what you're looking for out of the generator. This is due to the non-deterministic nature of the LLM used to power our Boolean Generator. Have no fear; in this guide we'll give you 4 tips to make your experience with the Boolean Generator as smooth as possible!

Sometimes repeating yourself isn't such a bad thing. When running a prompt, consider using language that repeats the point of your query in different ways. For example, if I was looking for ice cream flavors. I might start by looking just for "ice cream flavors"

Not quite what we want, is it? But if I add some examples:

It's getting a bit better! It's mostly just used our examples here but it's a good start.

Bad examples can help. Let's add a bad example to get rid of generic mentions to our ice cream flavors search.

Excellent, this got rid of our generic term. It may have added a blacklist we word we don't necessarily need, but we can always delete; we want more from this to start!

We have our examples, but it's not elaborating. We want more. Let's ask the generator for more flavors by repeating what we're really looking for.
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Awesome! The blacklist is a bit of an issue, but the main body is looking much better. Our examples have extrapolated into more terms for our search. So what's next?

LLMs are all about the dramatic. Ask for more! In our ice cream example we may be able to even cut back on the repitition by being dramatic. Like so:
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WOW! Now I am absolutely sure that's not every ice cream flavor ever made, but that's a much bigger list than we got before, and we said even less! Notice we are still repeating ourselves, but the exaggeration helped the system understand we mean business! So, our final tip:

As we said at the beginning, LLMs are non-deterministic; this means even the exact same input won't necessarily give the same answer twice. However, we can use this to our advantage; as it also means sometimes slight changes in input can cause more major changes in output

Let's just try one last change. I like our boolean above but maybe I think it's got a bit much. What happens if I take one example off?

And it's still really good! Just a little shorter, and a few less exclusions (thank goodness, I really wanted to see stuff about ice cream trucks!)

Here are a few more examples of good generations. The first section includes examples of searching for brands, products, etc. The second Includes events, holidays, and specific moments. Each includes a before and after following the rules we learned above!

The system will change and improve, so some of these tips may become obsolete over time, and there may be even better tips out there! Remember that you aren't stuck with what it makes; you can edit the Boolean to your heart's content!
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Find any cool tricks to get the best Boolean? Or just want to share what you made? Reach out to us on intercom with whatever you got! The more feedback we get, the better this generator becomes.