What Prompt Engineering Is and Why It Matters

Controlling Response Length and Detail

Common Prompting Mistakes to Avoid

Accidental Example in Zero-Shot

Temperature Out of Range

Vague Prompt With No Context

Contradictory Length and Detail

Ambiguous Reference in Prompt

Parsing Unrequested JSON

Contradictory Persona Assignment

Swapped System and User Roles

Building a Basic Prompt

Broken Few-Shot Examples

Delimiter Collides with Content

Iterating and Refining Prompts

Using Delimiters to Separate Prompt Sections

System vs User Prompts

Providing Context and Background Information

Specifying Output Format and Structure

Assigning Roles or Personas to the Model

Few-Shot Prompting with Examples

Zero-Shot Prompting

Writing Clear and Specific Instructions

Breaking Tasks into Steps

Few-Shot Prompting

Zero-Shot Prompting

Using Delimiters

Providing Context

Specifying Output Format

Assigning a Role or Persona

Common Prompt Mistakes

Setting Constraints

Iterating and Refining Prompts

Think Step by Step

What Prompt Engineering Is

Anatomy of a Good Prompt

Being Clear and Specific

Common Prompting Mistakes

Being Clear and Specific

Role or Persona Prompting

Using Delimiters

Iterating and Refining Prompts

Breaking Tasks into Steps

What is Prompt Engineering

Setting Constraints

Specifying Output Format

Providing Context

Few-Shot Prompting

Think Step by Step

Zero-Shot Prompting

Anatomy of a Good Prompt

Anatomy of a Prompt