Prompt Engineering Intro
📘Introduction
This guide teaches beginners how to best talk to large language models like ChatGPT and Bard. No matter who you are - a student, worker, business owner, or just someone curious, you will enjoy this guide.
Note: Follow our easy guide, and by the end, you’ll master prompt engineering. Simple, fun, and guaranteed!
📘What is Prompt?
A prompt is an instruction or hint given to an AI model to produce the desired output. For example, asking ChatGPT to “write a poem about love” is a prompt.
📘What is Prompt Engineering?
Prompt Engineering is developing and optimizing prompts to get the most useful, accurate, and safe answers from Large Language Models (LLMs). It can be applied across various media, including text, images, videos, and music.
Note: Writing a good prompt means getting your desired output.
📘Context
Context is the additional information you provide to help the AI produce the desired output. For example, in the prompt “Write a poem about love,” the context is “love.”
📘Large Language Models Explained
Large Language Models (LLMs) are AI models trained on extensive datasets. For instance, ChatGPT is trained on billions of parameters, allowing it to generate coherent and contextually relevant text based on input prompts.
📘Examples of Prompt Engineering
❌Bad Prompt Example
The prompt below could be better because it is not specific.
Write a poem.
✅Good Prompt Examples
This prompt is specific, providing a precise scenario and context.
Imagine you are a professional poet. Write a poem about a mother's love for her child in 100 words. Mother's Day is coming up.
I am 22, a young boy who loves to play football. I am a big fan of Messi. I got a chance to meet him. I am very excited. Write a Facebook post about my excitement in 2 sentences.
Note: In a good prompt there is Goal + Additional Information (context). You will learn how to write killer prompts in upcoming sections.
Classify the text into positive, negative, and neutral sentiments.
Text: I love this product.
Sentiment: Positive
📘For Whom?
Prompt engineering is helpful for:
- For students to learn concepts, get answers, and understand topics.
- For job seekers to prepare for interviews, write resumes, and get career advice.
- For developers to create applications, automate tasks, and generate content.
- For job holders to upskill, get career advice, and improve productivity.
- For marketers to create content, generate leads, and improve customer experience.
- For businesses to enhance their online presence, improve customer support, and increase sales.
Note: Prompt engineering is useful for everyone. It can be your friend, teacher, assistant, or even a therapist.
🚀Key Points
- Prompt Engineering is optimizing instructions to AI for targeted results.
- Context is the additional information you provide to help the AI produce the desired output.
- It is useful for students, job seekers, developers, job holders, marketers, and businesses.