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All You Need to Know About Prompt Engineering

Learn to design clear, structured, and secure prompts that guide AI systems with confidence. Develop skills in context grounding, tool use, evaluation, and designing production-ready prompts.
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This course teaches you how to design clear and reliable prompts that guide AI systems with confidence. You will learn to write precise objectives, define useful roles, manage ambiguity, and structure prompts to improve accuracy, stability, and output quality in everyday work. You will explore instruction design techniques that shape how models think and respond. These include few-shot prompting, schema-aligned outputs, style and persona control, advanced reasoning strategies, and careful control of creativity through model parameters. You will also learn how to ground answers in real context, work with long documents, and defend against risks like prompt injection. The course then introduces tool use, safety rules, and production practices that maintain the effectiveness of prompts over time. You will learn evaluation, monitoring, fairness checks, and experiment design. By the end, you will be ready to build prompts that support trustworthy and predictable AI behavior in real applications.
This course teaches you how to design clear and reliable prompts that guide AI systems with confidence. You will learn to write ...Show More

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

The ability to design clear, structured prompts that reduce ambiguity and improve output reliability
Knowledge of how to control model behavior through roles, style, persona, few-shot prompting, and reasoning strategies
Hands-on experience grounding AI responses in context by working with long documents, citations, and secure prompt structures
The ability to integrate tools safely, ensuring proper permissions, error handling, and effective action selection strategies
The ability to evaluate and monitor prompts using testing, fairness checks, and data-driven production practices
The ability to design clear, structured prompts that reduce ambiguity and improve output reliability

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TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Artificial Intelligence

Prompt Engineering

Generative AI

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Introduction

2 Lessons

Explore the core concepts of prompt engineering and its evolution.

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Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering

4 Lessons

Master effective prompt engineering through clarity, structure, and practical application.

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Instruction Design

5 Lessons

Master structured outputs, voice engineering, advanced reasoning, and creativity control in AI.

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Context and Grounding

3 Lessons

Enhance AI reliability through grounding, citations, and robust security measures.

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Tools and Structured Actions

2 Lessons

Master the integration of tools and safety in AI agent development.

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Production and Operations

2 Lessons

Master data-driven prompt engineering for fairness, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
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