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Course Outline

Introduction to Prompt Engineering

  • Defining prompt engineering and understanding its importance
  • Exploring typical use cases and their impact on productivity
  • An overview of standard model behaviours

Core Principles of Effective Prompts

  • Emphasising clarity, context, constraints, and examples
  • Managing output length, format, and tone
  • Identifying common pitfalls and strategies to avoid them

Prompt Patterns and Templates

  • Utilising instruction-based and role-specific prompts
  • Applying chain-of-thought and step-by-step prompting techniques
  • Incorporating few-shot examples and reusing templates

Practical Prompting Exercises

  • Developing prompts for summarisation and rewriting tasks
  • Creating prompts for classification and data extraction
  • Live iteration: adjusting prompts based on generated outputs

Evaluating and Enhancing Prompts

  • Applying metrics and heuristics to assess prompt quality
  • Validating prompts using tests and edge cases
  • Versioning and documenting prompt modifications

Safety, Bias, and Responsible Use

  • Identifying and mitigating biased or unsafe outputs
  • Implementing basic guardrails and content restrictions
  • Determining when human review is necessary

Conclusion, Resources, and Next Steps

  • Providing quick-reference templates and cheat sheets
  • Recommending further reading and community resources
  • Offering suggestions for ongoing practice and learning pathways

Requirements

  • Experience using web-based AI chat interfaces
  • Fundamental understanding of natural language concepts
  • Confidence in iterative problem-solving approaches

Target Audience

  • Beginners aiming to improve their ability to communicate effectively with AI models
  • Product managers, content creators, and analysts looking to explore AI tools
  • Professionals responsible for generating or assessing AI-created content
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