Building LLMs for Production

Prompting and Prompt Engineering

Whether using or building AI, you need to know how best to communicate with it. This is especially true for generative AI models, which primarily interact with the user through language input. Users can ask the model to perform a specific task by providing a textual description or instruction. In a broad sense, this input from users is a “prompt.” Prompting is how humans can talk to AI. It is a way to tell an AI agent what we want and how we want it using human language.

Prompt engineering is a discipline that creates and optimizes prompts to leverage language models across various applications and research areas. A prompt engineer will translate your idea from your regular conversational language into more precise ...