Course structure and fundamentals

0:00 I took Google's prompt engineering course for you so here's the cliffnotes version to save you to 9 hours but it's not enough just to listen to me talk about stuff so I've also included a little assessment at the end of the video to help you remember everything that you learned because research shows that immediately reviewing information after you learn it is the best way of retaining that information all right let's go let's first go over the structure of this course prompting Essentials has four modules module one is start writing prompts like a pro this is where they introduce some really helpful Frameworks for how to craft prompts module two is design proms for everyday work task this will include proms for emailing brainstorming building tables and summarizing documents module 3 specifically focused on using AI for data analysis and for building PowerPoint presentations and finally module four use AI as a creative or expert partner this is where Google really packs it in like I am genuinely super impressed by this module we talk about Advanced prompting techniques like prompt chaining Chain of Thought tree of thought and a framework for creating agents all right module one let's do the fundamentals let's first the prompting prompting is the process of providing Specific Instructions through gen tool to receive new information or to achieve a desired outcome on a task this could

1:08 be text images video sound or even code the course provides a five-step framework for how to design a prompt task context references evaluate and iterate the task is what you want the AI to do for example if your friend's birthday is coming up and they're really into anime you can say suggest the gift related to anime for my friend's birthday now that prompt in itself is okay but but you can Elevate this and get a result that's more unique and specific by incorporating two additional things the first one is a Persona which is a role that you want the AI to embody for example you can update the prompt to act as an anime expert to suggest an anime gift for my friend's birthday you notice that the results are a lot more specific and it's actually split into different genres the second thing you can add is the format of the output the default here is just the list and bullet

1:53 points but maybe you want something that's more structured so you can say organize that data into a table the second component of the framework is context the general rule of thumb is that the more context you can provide the better the output will be in your birthday gift example you can specify something like your friend is turning 29 years old her favorite animes are shangula Frontier solo leveling and Naruto etc etc you'll see that the output is much more targeted third part of the framework is references this is where you can provide examples to the AI sometimes when you're trying to explain what you want it's kind of hard to describe it in words but providing examples can really clear things up and AI is especially good at incorporating examples maybe you can provide past birthday presents that this person has enjoyed step number four is evaluate this is after you get the output just ask yourself is this output what I want

2:41 it to be and if it's not exactly what you wanted to be then last upep is iterate prompting is rarely a oneandone kind of thing it's much more of a circular process in which you're refining the prompt to get the results that you want just like what we did earlier often times you might just start with a simple task like suggestions for a birthday present then you want to get better results and you start iterating on that and adding things like a Persona context and references to finally get to a result that you're happy with as the course calls it ABI always be iterating speaking of pneumonics the course does have one for this five-step framework which I actually find really difficult to remember um I think it's thoughtfully craft really excellent I don't know what the ey stands for I'll I'll put it on screen but I do have one that I made which I can remember a lot better so I don't know maybe this will help you as well uh which is Tiny crabs ride

3:27 enormous iguanas a lot more memorable in my opinion anyways whatever it is that you need to do uh just figure out some way to remember this framework because everything else in the course is based on this the rest of module one which also includes interviewing different people I think is interesting but not super necessary the only other really useful important thing that they presented is the four iteration methods so by following date I'm just going to