Prompt engineering
The skill of writing clear instructions so AI gives useful answers.
For example
Adding who you are, what you want, the details and the format to your prompt.
Related terms
- Pre-training The first stage, learning from a huge amount of text by guessing the next word.
- Probability How likely something is to happen.
- Prompt The words you give an AI to tell it what to make.
- Reasoning model A model that works through a problem step by step before answering: slower, but better at maths, logic and planning.
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) The AI first looks up trusted documents, then answers using what it found.
- Semantic search Searching by meaning instead of exact words.