What you'll learn
- Build prompts with a repeatable framework
- Understand the importance and risks of of system messages
- Give LLMs useful context without the clutter
- Use personas to shape tone, style, and behavior
- Write clearer instructions with delimiters
- Apply zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompting
- Use chain-of-thought prompting techniques
- Control output length, format, and structure
In this cours you’ll learn a practical framework for communicating with tools like ChatGPT and other large language models. You’ll explore the different pieces of a prompt and see how system messages, user instructions, context, personas, examples, and output requirements work together.
You’ll also get a closer look at how LLMs handle context, why important information can get lost, and how fundamental techniques like zero-shot, one-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting can change the quality of a response.
Along the way, hands-on exercises let you experiment with everything from role-playing and creative writing to prompt security.
Then you’ll bring the ideas together by creating a personalized AI career coach and learn how to guide outputs into useful formats such as spreadsheets and flowcharts.
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