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Prompt Engineering

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Letter: P

Crafting inputs that elicit more accurate or useful outputs from AI models.

Detailed Definition

Prompt engineering is the practice of systematically designing the text (and, in multi-modal setups, images or audio) you feed into an AI model so that its responses are more accurate, reliable, or stylistically aligned. It encompasses techniques such as role-setting (‘You are an expert…’), few-shot examples, chain-of-thought instructions, and system-level prompts baked into products. Effective prompt engineering can dramatically improve performance without retraining the underlying model.