2025
A Flash in the Pan: Better Prompting Strategies to Deploy Out-of-the-Box LLMs as Conversational Recommendation Systems
Gustavo Adolpho Lucas de Carvalho, Simon Benigeri, Jennifer Healey, Victor Bursztyn, David Demeter, Lawrence Birnbaum
COLING 2025main
Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRSs) are a particularly interesting application for out-of-the-box LLMs due to their potential for eliciting user preferences and making recommendations in natural language across a wide set of domains. Somewhat surprisingly, we find however that in such a con…