Effective AI Prompt Engineering Guide
Effective AI Prompt Engineering Guide
Overview:
Prompt engineering is the art of crafting inputs for large language models to elicit desired behaviors.
Core Categories:
1. Classification
2. Summarization
3. Generation
4. Role-based instructions
5. Chained prompting
Examples:
[Classification]
Prompt: "Is the following message a product inquiry or a complaint? Message: 'The item I received is
damaged.'"
Expected Output: Complaint
[Summarization]
Prompt: "Summarize this support ticket in 1 sentence."
Context: "User reports app crashes every time it launches on iOS 17."
[Instruction]
Prompt: "You are an HR assistant. Write a job posting for a remote software engineer skilled in React and
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Effective AI Prompt Engineering Guide
Node.js."
[Chain-of-thought]
Prompt: "You are solving a logic puzzle. Show all steps."
Prompt Tips:
- Be specific in your goal.
- Provide context with examples (few-shot).
- Avoid vague instructions like 'write something smart.'
Advanced:
- Use functions/tools via API calls with structured input.
- Fine-tune or cache prompt results for repeated tasks.
Conclusion:
Good prompts reduce hallucination, increase relevance, and allow reusability across projects.
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