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Prompt engineering that actually works (and what does not)

Prompt engineering has a bad reputation because most of it is superstition. But underneath the "you are a helpful assistant" cargo-culting, there are a handful of techniques that reliably work — and…

  • Prompt engineering has negative reputation due to superstitions
  • Techniques improve quality by setting context for most probable continuation
  • Specific output, examples, thinking, role, and decomposition boost reliability

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