All you need to know about Prompt Engineering*

All you need to know about Prompt Engineering

Intermediate

136 Lessons

1h

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All you need to know about Prompt Engineering

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All you need to know about Prompt Engineering

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1.

Getting Started

Why Prompt Engineering - img
Who This Course Empowers - img
Your Learning Path - highlight (bigger picture)
2.

What Is Prompt Engineering?

Prompt vs Prompt Engineering
Why prompts matter
Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering
Fill in the blank: Prompt engineering
Core Prompt Components - img
Challenges of Prompt Engineering - img
Quiz: Purpose of Prompt Engineering
3.

How Prompt Engineering Is Evolving

How Prompting Evolved
The Instruction-Tuning Shift - img
True/False: Instruction tuning
Prompting in Development
Prompting vs Fine-Tuning
Quiz: Prompting vs Fine-Tuning
Rise of AI Agents - img
The Multimodal Future - img
Universal Best Practices - highlight
4.

Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering

Clear Objectives Drive Results
Success Criteria Matter
Convergent vs Divergent Tasks
Quiz: Convergent vs Divergent Tasks
Power of Role-Prompting - img
When Roles Backfire - highlight
Why Prompt Structure Matters
System, User, Assistant - img
Using Delimiters - img
Why Delimiters Work - highlight
Designing Resilient Prompts - img
Handling Ambiguous Queries
Building Refusal & Safety Rules - img
Self-Correction Prompts - img
Recognizing & Fixing Prompt Smells
Troubleshooting Framework - highlight
Fill in the blank: Clear instructions
5.

Instruction Design

Why Structure AI Outputs
Controlling Output
True/False: Output format
Zero-Shot Prompting - img
One-Shot Prompting - img
Few-Shot Prompting - img
How Few-Shot Works
Quiz: Identifying Shot Types
Why AI Voice Matters
What Is Tone?
What Is Style?
What Is Persona?
Directly Controlling Voice - img
Crafting Strong Personas - img
Mimicking Style with Examples
Ethical Voice Design - highlight
6.

Advanced Reasoning Techniques

11 Lessons

7.

Controlling Creativity with Model Parameters

10 Lessons

8.

Context and Grounding

19 Lessons

9.

Tools and Structured Actions

16 Lessons

10.

Production and Operations

11 Lessons

11.

Fairness and Bias

15 Lessons

12.

Wrap Up

2 Lessons

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