Prompt Engineering Basics

What you'll learn

• ✦Explain what a prompt is and how language models process it
• ✦Write clear, specific prompts that reduce guessing and hallucination
• ✦Apply zero-shot, few-shot, and role-based prompting techniques
• ✦Use chain-of-thought and task decomposition for complex problems
• ✦Spot and fix common prompt failures like vague, overloaded, or contradictory prompts
• ✦Build reusable prompt templates you can keep and improve over time
• ✦Reduce hallucinations by grounding prompts in sources and asking for self-checks
• ✦Use prompts inside applications, evaluate and version them, and resist prompt injection

Syllabus