Prompting Essentials

Write prompts that get you exactly what you want, every time

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Basic principles: How to prompt

PUBLISHED 04/02/2025BEGINNER

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Fundamental techniques for making effective prompts that will deliver the expected results.

Five prompting techniques you need to know

PUBLISHED 04/02/2025BEGINNER

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Learn popular prompting techniques: zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, context-aware, and RAG.

Basic principles: Give AI tasks, not jobs

PUBLISHED 04/02/2025BEGINNER

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Giving AI tasks, not jobs, is essential if you want to prompt effectively.

Basic principles: Giving yourself options

PUBLISHED 04/02/2025BEGINNER

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Giving yourself options when prompting the AI is an overlook but powerful strategy.

How to use XML tags for better prompting

PUBLISHED 04/02/2025BEGINNER

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Learn a new technique that will help you get more accurate and relevant responses.

Write smarter prompts with Chain of Thought (CoT) techniques

PUBLISHED 04/16/2025INTERMEDIATE

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Learn how to structure prompts that lead to desired outcomes with any AI chatbot.