Prompt Engineering
AI & TechnologyDefinition
The skill of designing and refining prompts to get better, more accurate, or more useful outputs from AI tools. Good prompt engineering involves understanding how models interpret instructions and using techniques like role assignment, chain-of-thought, and few-shot examples.
Example in context
A data analyst uses prompt engineering techniques — including providing example outputs and specifying the exact format required — to get a language model to produce clean, structured JSON data from unstructured text.
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