Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering is the practice of designing and refining prompts to get more accurate, useful or reliable outputs from a generative AI model.
What is Prompt Engineering?
Techniques include giving clear instructions and context, specifying the format, providing examples and asking the model to reason step by step. As models improve, careful prompting increasingly blends with designing whole workflows and agent instructions.
How it works
Practitioners test variations of a prompt against sample tasks and keep the versions that perform best.
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