Video course · 12 chapters · 22 min · certificate
ChatGPT Prompt Engineering: Proven Techniques for Powerful AI Results
Stop winging it with ChatGPT: four common prompting mistakes, five proven techniques (building prompts from scratch, the five-box framework, breaking problems down, meta prompting and prompt chaining), two worked examples and how to debug a prompt.
What you'll learn
- Avoid the four most common prompting mistakes
- Build prompts from scratch for your task
- Use a role-task-context-format-constraints framework
- Break complex problems into steps
- Use meta prompting and prompt chains
- Debug prompts that miss the mark
Chapters
12 chapters · 22:12-
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01Mistakes Members
Mistake 1: vague prompts
Winging it.
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1:00
02Mistakes Members
Mistake 2: treating it like search
Generation, not search.
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2:25
03Mistakes Members
Mistake 3: being too polite and one-shotting
Be direct; iterate.
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1:19
04Mistakes Members
Mistake 4: not refining
Follow-ups.
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2:14
05Techniques Members
Technique 1: build from scratch
Don't copy generic prompts.
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2:10
06Techniques Members
Technique 2: the five boxes
Role, task, context, format, constraints.
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3:03
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Technique 3: break it down
Step by step.
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2:15
08Techniques Members
Technique 4: meta prompting
Prompting about prompting.
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1:29
09Techniques Members
Technique 5: prompt chaining and example 1
Mini AI workflows.
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1:03
10Examples Members
Example 2: detailed image prompt
Specific beats generic.
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2:32
11Debugging Members
Debugging prompts
When results miss.
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1:20
12Wrap-up Members
Conclusion
Clear thinking wins.
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