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Prompt Engineering

The practice of designing effective prompts to elicit desired behavior from LLMs. Includes system prompt design, few-shot examples, output format specification, and chain-of-thought structuring.

Where this is taught

• Prompt Engineering Fundamentals for PMs — Phase 6: Prompt Engineering & GenAI Feature Design
• Prompt Engineering as Interface Design — Phase 5: Modern LLM Engineering
• Prompt Engineering Fundamentals — Phase 0: LLM Fast Track
• Prompt Specs & Prompt-as-Interface — Phase 4: Writing AI Product Requirements
• Context Engineering: Designing the Model's Information Environment — Phase 5: Modern LLM Engineering
• Build the Content Generators — Build an AI Content Factory

Related terms

System Prompt · Chain of Thought

More in Prompting

Chain of Thought (CoT) · Few-Shot Prompting · Zero-Shot · Self-Consistency

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