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RESOURCES / LINKS:

🧠Vanderbilt University’s Prompting Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/prompt-engineering

🧠Google’s Prompting Course: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/prompting-essentials-google/

📘Anthropic Prompting Docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview

📗Google’s Prompting Docs: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/prompting-strategies

📙OpenAI Prompting Docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompting

🤖Prompt Improver Prompt: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Fabric/blob/main/data/patterns/improve_prompt/system.md

🤖Anthropic Prompt Improver: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompt-improver

👤Check out Daniel Miessler: https://x.com/DanielMiessler

👤Check out Eric Pope: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-pope/

👤Check out Joseph Thacker (“the prompt-father”): https://x.com/rez0__


TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro
1:42 - Prompting
4:12 - Personas
6:48 - Context
10:56 - Format
13:36 - Advanced Techniques
17:41 - The Meta-Skill



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Learn effective prompt engineering techniques to get better results from AI language models. The guide covers foundational concepts like personas, context provision, output formatting, and advanced methods including chain-of-thought reasoning, few-shot prompting, and multi-perspective evaluation. The core insight: AI quality depends on clarity of thought—if you can't explain what you want clearly, the AI can't deliver it. Includes practical examples transforming a basic apology email prompt into professional output through iterative improvements.

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<p>Fairly good points. Just remember that “Chain of Thought” is bollocks, it kind of works but also for the wrong reasons. “Chain of Babble”, where you tell the llm to just repeat a word 100 times before replying works even better than CoT. So the summary is: regardless of the method let llms burn some tokens as a warm up, and they get more accurate results and less hallucinations.</p>
