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Leveraging Snowflake Cortex COMPLETE Function for Prompt Engineering

Snowflake Cortex’s COMPLETE function revolutionizes natural language processing, allowing teams to use text instead of traditional tables or charts. This shift enables more intuitive and dynamic data interactions, simplifying insights extraction for non-technical users. Here’s a look at various use-cases and how analytics teams can leverage this functionality.

Britton Stamper
July 22, 2024
Leveraging Snowflake Cortex COMPLETE Function for Prompt Engineering
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Snowflake Cortex’s COMPLETE function provides powerful capabilities for natural language processing, enabling teams to use text as an interface instead of traditional tables or charts. This shift from visual to textual interfaces allows for more intuitive and dynamic data interactions, making it easier for non-technical users to extract insights and engage with data. Here’s an in-depth look at various use-cases and how analytics teams can leverage this functionality.

1. Customer Support Automation

Use-Case: Automating customer support responses to common queries.

Description: The COMPLETE function can be used to generate accurate and context-aware responses to customer inquiries. By feeding the function with historical support data and typical queries, the AI can be trained to provide relevant and coherent responses.

Example Implementation:

Setup Training Data:

Store historical customer queries and responses in a Snowflake table.

Create Prompt:

SELECT    
  SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX.COMPLETE('Customer asked: "How can I reset my password?"', model='mistral-large') AS response;

Automate Responses:

Integrate this function into your customer support system to provide real-time responses to user queries.

Benefits:

  • Reduces response time and improves customer satisfaction.
  • Frees up support staff to handle more complex issues.

2. Sales and Marketing Content Generation

Use-Case: Generating personalized sales emails or marketing content.

Description: Use the COMPLETE function to create customized and engaging content for potential customers based on their preferences and past interactions.

Example Implementation:

  1. Gather Customer Data:
    • Collect data on customer preferences and previous interactions.
  2. Create Prompt:
  3. Automate Content Creation:
    • Use this function to generate personalized content for email campaigns, social media posts, or website copy.

Benefits:

  • Enhances customer engagement with personalized content.
  • Streamlines the content creation process.

3. Internal Knowledge Management

Use-Case: Summarizing internal documents or generating insights from large datasets.

Description: The COMPLETE function can be used to summarize lengthy documents, generate insights, or create concise reports, making it easier for employees to digest large amounts of information.

Example Implementation:

  1. Store Documents:
    • Upload internal documents to Snowflake.
  2. Create Prompt:
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    SELECT
       SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX.COMPLETE('Summarize the Q2 performance report.', model='snowflake-arctic') AS summary;

  4. Distribute Summaries:
    • Automatically generate and distribute summaries to relevant teams.

Benefits:

  • Saves time by quickly summarizing long documents.
  • Ensures employees have access to concise and relevant information.

4. Product Development Insights

Use-Case: Generating insights from user feedback for product development.

Description: Use the COMPLETE function to analyze user feedback and generate actionable insights for product development teams.

Example Implementation:

  1. Collect Feedback:
    • Gather user feedback from various channels and store it in Snowflake.
  2. Create Prompt:
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    SELECT
       SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX.COMPLETE('Analyze user feedback and suggest improvements for the mobile app.', model='llama3-70b') AS insights;

  4. Share Insights:
    • Provide product development teams with insights to guide the improvement of products.

Benefits:

  • Enhances product development with direct user feedback.
  • Identifies key areas for improvement based on actual user experience.

5. Data-Driven Decision Making

Use-Case: Assisting in making data-driven decisions by generating summaries and recommendations based on data analysis.

Description: The COMPLETE function can process complex data and generate human-readable summaries and recommendations, facilitating data-driven decision-making.

Example Implementation:

Analyze Data:

Run complex queries to extract data insights.

Create Prompt:

SELECT
    SNOWFLAKE.CORTEX.COMPLETE('Provide a summary and recommendations based on the sales performance data for Q3.', model='reka-core') AS recommendations;

Actionable Insights:

Present these summaries and recommendations to decision-makers in the organization.

Benefits:

  • Translates complex data into actionable insights.
  • Supports informed decision-making processes.

Conclusion

By leveraging the Snowflake Cortex COMPLETE function, analytics teams can transform how they interact with data. This shift to using text as an interface makes data analysis more accessible and intuitive, allowing for quicker insights and more dynamic interactions. Whether it's automating customer support, generating marketing content, summarizing internal documents, or providing actionable insights for decision-making, the COMPLETE function can significantly enhance the capabilities of analytics teams and drive more efficient and effective data use throughout the organization.

For further details and examples, you can refer to the Snowflake Cortex Documentation.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Britton Stamper

Britton is the CTO of Push.ai and oversees Product, Design, and Engineering. He's been a passionate builder, analyst and designer who loves all things data products and growth. You can find him reading books at a coffee shop or finding winning strategies in board games and board rooms.

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