The Art and Science of Crafting Effective Prompts for LLMs

Prompts are the key that unlock value from large language models (LLMs). Writing good prompts for LLMs falls somewhere between science and art — thus the term Prompt Engineering aka prompt design / in-context learning.

You may have come across many cheat sheets on prompt writing on social media. Prompt engineering is also an active research area with plenty of papers on arxiv.org. With all this information, I debated the need for writing an article on prompting. On a recent webinar on Generative AI, I was asked: why care about…