Challenge: Existing prompting techniques for providing control are task-specific and lack generality; this limits their adoption among non-expert users.
Approach: They propose a prompting strategy that encourages large language models to help non-expert users by asking relevant questions and leveraging user answers to execute a task.
Outcome: The proposed prompting strategy is able to help non-expert users with a variety of tasks.

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