Prompt Engineering

A prompt is the input text or instruction given to an AI language model to guide its response.

The practice of designing, crafting, and optimizing input prompts to elicit desired outputs from AI language models.

Asking the model to perform a task without providing any examples, relying solely on the model's pre-trained knowledge.

Providing exactly one example of the desired input-output pattern before asking the model to complete a new task.

Providing two or more examples of the desired input-output pattern to guide the model's response format and style.

A technique where you instruct the model to reason step-by-step before giving a final answer, improving accuracy on complex tasks.

Adding "Let's think step by step" or "Think through this carefully" encourages the model to produce structured reasoning.

Combining zero-shot prompting with "Let's think step by step" to get reasoning without needing to provide examples.

Assigning a specific persona or role to the model (e.g., "You are an expert Python developer") to shape its response style and expertise.

A set of instructions given to the model before the conversation begins, defining its behavior, persona, and constraints for the session.

The message sent by the human in a conversation with an AI model, expressing a request, question, or task.

Breaking a complex task into multiple sequential prompts where the output of one becomes the input of the next.