What Prompt Engineering Is and Why It Matters

Controlling Response Length and Detail

Common Prompting Mistakes to Avoid

Accidental Example in Zero-Shot

Vague Prompt With No Context

Building a Basic Prompt

Broken Few-Shot Examples

Contradictory Length and Detail

Parsing Unrequested JSON

Swapped System and User Roles

Ambiguous Reference in Prompt

Contradictory Persona Assignment

Delimiter Collides with Content

Temperature Out of Range

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

Providing Context

Few-Shot Prompting

Setting Constraints

Iterating and Refining Prompts

Think Step by Step

Using Delimiters

Zero-Shot Prompting

Specifying Output Format

Assigning a Role or Persona

Being Clear and Specific

Anatomy of a Good Prompt

Common Prompt Mistakes

Breaking Tasks into Steps

What Prompt Engineering Is

Being Clear and Specific

Anatomy of a Good Prompt

Breaking Tasks into Steps

Zero-Shot Prompting

Using Delimiters

Specifying Output Format

Providing Context

Setting Constraints

Think Step by Step

What is Prompt Engineering

Common Prompting Mistakes

Role or Persona Prompting

Iterating and Refining Prompts

Few-Shot Prompting

Anatomy of a Prompt