Prompt engineering¶
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Concepts¶
- System instructions; developer instructions; user requests; instruction precedence
- Task framing; constraints; success criteria; ambiguity handling
- Zero-shot prompting; few-shot prompting; example selection; negative examples
- Delimiters; structured input; instruction-data separation
- Task decomposition; staged prompting; prompt chaining
- Output contracts; JSON schemas; formatting constraints
- Grounding instructions; citation requirements; abstention; clarification
- Prompt templates; variables; prompt versioning; prompt regression tests
- Conflicting instructions; overconstraint; prompt brittleness; underspecification
- Prompt optimization; evaluation flywheel; measured outcomes
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