Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics

Chapters

1Foundations of Generative AI

2LLM Behavior and Capabilities

3Core Principles of Prompt Engineering

Clarity Over Cleverness Specificity and Constraints User Intent and Task Framing Audience and Tone Control Context and Grounding Example-Driven Guidance Output Structure and Formatting Stepwise Reasoning Prompts Verification and Fact-Checking Controlling Randomness Guardrails and Boundaries Assumption Surfacing Decomposition Before Execution Iteration and Refinement Cycles Success Criteria Up Front

4Writing Clear, Actionable Instructions

5Roles, Personas, and System Prompts

6Supplying Context and Grounding

7Examples: Zero-, One-, and Few-Shot

8Structuring Outputs and Formats

9Reasoning and Decomposition Techniques

10Iteration, Testing, and Prompt Debugging

11Evaluation, Metrics, and Quality Control

12Safety, Ethics, and Risk Mitigation

13Tools, Functions, and Agentic Workflows

14Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

15Multimodal and Advanced Prompt Patterns

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Core Principles of Prompt Engineering

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Adopt guiding principles—clarity, specificity, grounding, and iteration—to consistently steer models toward desired outcomes.

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