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AI Prompt Engineering Absolute Beginners Guide
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AI Prompt Engineering Absolute Beginners Guide

by Michael Miller
December 2025
Beginner
272 pages
6h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Refining Your Prompts

If you want to get better at AI prompting, you have to learn how to refine your prompts. That means reworking your prompts in successive runs to achieve better or different results. That’s typically done by reframing or rewording your prompts, in what we call iterative or reflective prompting.

Why It’s Important to Refine Your Prompts

Why is it important to learn how to refine your prompts? It’s simple: The first drafts of your prompts are rarely perfect. Yeah, sometimes you’ll hit it out of the ballpark on your first swing, but ...

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