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Unlocking the Secrets of Prompt Engineering
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Unlocking the Secrets of Prompt Engineering

by Gilbert Mizrahi
January 2024
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
8h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preface

The advent of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, Bard, and Claude, represents a seismic shift in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Fueled by vast datasets and compute power, these models can generate astonishingly human-like text and engage in complex dialogue. However, their potential is only fully realized through the art of prompt engineering – the process of carefully crafting the prompts that activate the models. Prompts encode instructions, context, examples, and guardrails to channel the models’ capabilities for specific tasks. Mastering prompt engineering unlocks the immense power of LLMs for a myriad of applications, from content creation to data analysis and beyond.

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