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Prompt Engineering

The art and science of crafting inputs to AI models to get the best possible outputs.

Definition

The art and science of crafting inputs to AI models to get the best possible outputs. Techniques include system prompts, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought reasoning, and role-playing. A surprisingly impactful skill — the same model can give wildly different results depending on how you ask.

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Prompting

The text input you give to an AI model to direct its behavior.

Chain of Thought

A prompting technique where you ask an AI model to show its reasoning step by step before giving a final answer.

Few-Shot Learning

The ability of a model to learn a new task from just a handful of examples, often provided in the prompt itself.

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AGI

Artificial General Intelligence.

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