Introduction: what is prompt engineering? · Prompt Engineering Tutorial – Master ChatGPT and LLM Responses

Prompt engineering is about getting ideal responses from LLMs.
Topics: mindset, best practices, zero/few-shot, chain of thought, hallucinations, embeddings.
It has become a career in its own right.

Topic	Covered
Basics	AI, linguistics, LMs
Practice	Best practices
Advanced	Shots, embeddings

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Goal?

Better LLM responses.

Instructor?

Ania Kubow.

0:00 My name is Anu Kubo and I'm a software developer as well as course cruiser here on FreeCoCamp as well as on my own channel. This is going to be a unique course for me as there is going to be a lot less coding going on but a lot more understanding about the topic of prompt engineering and why some companies are paying up to $335,000 a year according to Bloomberg for people in this profession. And no, no coding background is necessarily required.

0:48 So what are we waiting for? Let's do it. In this course, we will learn what prompt engineering is exactly, get a brief introduction to AI, a look at large language models or LLMs such as chat GPT, a look at text to image models such as mid journey, a look at emerging models. This would include text to speech, text to audio or speech to text as well as prompt engineering mindset, best practices, zero-shot prompting, few-shot prompting, chain of thought, AI hallucinations, vexes, text embeddings and also end with a quick intro to chat GPT.

1:11 So let's start off with looking at what exactly prompt engineering is in the first place. Prompt engineering in a nutshell is a career that came about of the back of the rise of artificial intelligence. It involves human writing, refining and optimizing prompts in a structured way. This is done with the intention of perfecting the interaction between humans and AI to the highest degree possible. Not only that, however, a prompt engineer is then also required to continuously monitor those prompts ensure their effectiveness with time as AI progresses.

1:59 Maintaining an up-to-date prompt library will be a requirement that is placed onto the prompt engineer as well as reporting on findings and in general, being a thought leader in this space. But why do we need it? And how did it come about from AI? Before moving on, let's actually make sure we are on the same page about what exactly AI is. Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines.