
About this episode
A practical tour of prompt engineering for large language models. We cover what prompts are and how model settings like max tokens, temperature, top-k, and top-p shape outputs. Explore zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompting, plus system, contextual, and role prompts. We also dive into advanced techniques like step-back prompts and chain-of-thought prompting, and discuss getting structured JSON outputs. Aimed at coders and AI practitioners looking to make LLMs more reliable, cost-efficient, and problem-solving focused.
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