How to talk to machines: 10 secrets of prompt engineering

Just a few years ago, a prompt was something English teachers used for homework assignments, which filled up weekends and kept students inside on sunny days. Now it seems we’re all teachers, tasked with distributing perfect prompts that direct large language models to do our bidding. These prompts are also endowed with the power to ruin weekends, but it’s not the machines that are suffering.

The power of prompts can seem downright magical. We toss off a few words that …

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