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Prompt Engineering Masterclass

Master the art and science of prompting LLMs. Covers zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, RAG, ReAct, model-specific strategies, safety, and production deployment.

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Course Outline

1

Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering

5 lessons

Understand how LLMs interpret prompts, master zero-shot and few-shot techniques, and learn the core design principles that make every prompt more effective. Reference: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

What is Prompt Engineering?
Anatomy of a Prompt
Zero-Shot Prompting
Few-Shot Prompting
General Prompt Design Tips
2

Reasoning & Chain-of-Thought Techniques

6 lessons

Unlock step-by-step reasoning in LLMs with chain-of-thought, self-consistency, tree of thoughts, ReAct, and prompt chaining. Reference: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Self-Consistency
Tree of Thoughts
ReAct Prompting
Automatic Chain-of-Thought (Auto-CoT)
Prompt Chaining
3

Advanced Prompting Techniques

6 lessons

Go beyond basics with RAG, program-aided language models, active prompting, directional stimulus, automatic prompt optimization, and multimodal prompting. Reference: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Program-Aided Language Models (PAL)
Active Prompting
Directional Stimulus Prompting
Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE)
Multimodal Prompting
4

Real-World Applications

5 lessons

Apply prompt engineering to code generation, data augmentation, classification, summarization, and creative writing tasks. Reference: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

Code Generation
Data Generation & Augmentation
Text Classification & Sentiment Analysis
Summarization & Extraction
Creative Writing & Content Generation
5

Model-Specific Prompting Strategies

5 lessons

Learn the unique prompting techniques, strengths, and quirks of GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and open-source models like LLaMA and Mistral. Reference: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

Prompting GPT-4 & GPT-4o
Prompting Claude
Prompting Gemini
Prompting Open-Source Models
Comparing Models
6

Safety, Security & Responsible AI

5 lessons

Defend against prompt injection, mitigate hallucination and bias, implement content safety guardrails, and practice responsible AI deployment. Reference: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

Prompt Injection Attacks
Hallucination & Factuality
Bias in LLM Outputs
Content Filtering & Safety Guardrails
Responsible AI Prompting
7

Production Prompt Engineering

5 lessons

Take prompts to production with template management, evaluation frameworks, cost optimization, application architecture, and real-world case studies. Reference: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

Prompt Templates & Management
Evaluation & Benchmarking
Cost Optimization
Building LLM Applications
Case Studies