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Prompt Engineering Guide

😃 Basics

🟢 Basics Guide Overview

🟢 What is Generative AI?

🟢 ChatGPT Basics

🟢 Testing Prompts with Interactive Learn Prompting Embeds

🟢 Introduction to Prompt Engineering

🟢 Basic Prompt Structure and Key Parts

🟢 Technique #1: Instructions in Prompts

🟢 Technique #2: Roles in Prompts

🟢 Technique #3: Examples in Prompts: From Zero-Shot to Few-Shot

🟢 Combining Prompting Techniques

🟢 Tips for Writing Better Prompts

🟢 Prompt Priming: Setting Context for AI

🟢 Differences Between Chatbots and LLMs

🟢 LLM Limitations: When Models and Chatbots Make Mistakes

🟢 What Can Generative AI Create Beyond Text?

🟢 How to Solve Problems Using Generative AI: A Simple Method

🟢 Next Steps: Where to Go From Here

💼 Applications

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Text Summarization

🟢 Table Generation

🟢 Multiple Choice Questions

🟢 Short-Form Content

🟢 Writing in Different Styles

🟢 Finding Emojis

🟢 Writing Emails

🟢 Blog Writing

🟢 Legal Documents

🟢 Study Buddy

🟦 Digital Marketing

🟦 Coding Assistance

🟦 Knowledge Base Chatbot

🟦 How to Build a Chatbot Using LLMs

🟦 Zapier for Emails

🧙‍♂️ Intermediate

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Chain-of-Thought Prompting

🟢 Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought

🟦 Self-Consistency

🟦 Generated Knowledge

🟦 Least-to-Most Prompting

🟦 Dealing With Long Form Content

🟦 Revisiting Roles

🟦 More About Prompt Elements

🟦 Basic LLM Settings

🟦 OpenAI Playground

🧠 Advanced

🟢 Introduction

Zero-Shot

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Emotion Prompting

🟢 Role Prompting

🟢 Re-reading (RE2)

🟢 Rephrase and Respond (RaR)

◆ System 2 Attention (S2A)

Few-Shot

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Self Generated In-Context Learning (SG-ICL)

🟢 Chain-of-Dictionary (CoD)

🟦 Chain of Knowledge (CoK)

◆ K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN)

◆◆ Prompt Mining

Thought Generation

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Chain of Draft (CoD)

🟦 Contrastive Chain-of-Thought

🟦 Automatic Chain of Thought (Auto-CoT)

🟦 Tabular Chain-of-Thought (Tab-CoT)

🟦 Memory-of-Thought (MoT)

🟦 Active Prompting

🟦 Analogical Prompting

🟦 Complexity-Based Prompting

🟦 Step-Back Prompting

🟦 Thread of Thought (ThoT)

Ensembling

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Universal Self-Consistency

🟦 Mixture of Reasoning Experts (MoRE)

🟦 Max Mutual Information (MMI) Method

🟦 Prompt Paraphrasing

🟦 DiVeRSe (Diverse Verifier on Reasoning Step)

🟦 Universal Self-Adaptive Prompting (USP)

🟦 Consistency-based Self-adaptive Prompting (COSP)

🟦 Multi-Chain Reasoning (MCR)

Self-Criticism

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Self-Calibration

🟢 Chain of Density (CoD)

🟢 Chain-of-Verification (CoVe)

🟦 Self-Refine

🟦 Cumulative Reasoning

🟦 Reversing Chain-of-Thought (RCoT)

◆ Self-Verification

Decomposition

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Chain-of-Logic

🟦 Decomposed Prompting

🟦 Plan-and-Solve Prompting

🟦 Program of Thoughts

🟦 Tree of Thoughts

🟦 Chain of Code (CoC)

🟦 Duty-Distinct Chain-of-Thought (DDCoT)

◆ Faithful Chain-of-Thought

◆ Recursion of Thought

◆ Skeleton-of-Thought

⚖️ Reliability

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Prompt Debiasing

🟦 Prompt Ensembling

🟦 LLM Self-Evaluation

🟦 Calibrating LLMs

🔓 Prompt Hacking

🖼️ Image Prompting

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Style Modifiers

🟢 Quality Boosters

🟢 Repetition

🟢 Weighted Terms

🟢 Fix Deformed Generations

🟢 Midjourney

🌱 New Techniques

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Aligned Chain-of-Thought (AlignedCoT)

🟦 Self-Harmonized Chain-of-Thought (ECHO)

🟦 Logic-of-Thought (LoT)

🟦 Narrative-of-Thought (NoT)

🟦 Code Prompting

◆ End-to-End DAG-Path (EEDP) Prompting

◆ Instance-adaptive Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting (IAP)

🔧 Models

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Stable Diffusion 3.5

🟢 Anthropic Claude

🟦 Apple Intelligence Models

🟢 Google Gemini 1.5

🟢 Gemini 1.5 Flash

🟢 Gemini 1.5 Pro

🗂️ RAG

🟢 Introduction

🟦 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

🟦 FLARE / Active RAG

🟦 Corrective RAG

🟦 Speculative RAG

🟦 Reliability-Aware RAG (RA-RAG)

🟦 Multi-Fusion Retrieval Augmented Generation (MoRAG)

🤖 Agents

🟢 Introduction

🟦 LLMs Using Tools

🟦 LLMs that Reason and Act

🟦 Code as Reasoning

💪 Prompt Tuning

🟢 Introduction

🟦 Prompt Tuning with Soft Prompts

🟦 Interpretable Soft Prompts

🟦 Prefix-Tuning

🟦 Prompt-Tuning with Perturbation-Based Regularizer

🟦 Low-Rank Prompt Tuning (LoPT)

🟦 Dynamic Prompting

🟦 Gradient-Free Prompt Tuning

🟦 Multitask Prompt Tuning

🔁 Language Model Inversion

🟢 Introduction

🟢 logit2prompt

🟢 output2prompt

🟢 Reverse Prompt Engineering (RPE)

🔨 Tooling

📙 Vocabulary Resource

🎲 Miscellaneous

🟢 Introduction

🟢 Detection Trickery

🟢 Music Generation

🟢 Detecting AI Generated Text

📚 Bibliography

📦 Prompted Products

🛸 Additional Resources

🔥 Hot Topics

📙 Vocabulary Resource

Thought Generation

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Last updated on November 12, 2024

Thought generation is a family of techniques that aim to guide the model to generate thoughts or ideas. This can be done using a variety of prompting techniques, such as Thread-of-Thought.

Footnotes

Liu, J., Liu, A., Lu, X., Welleck, S., West, P., Bras, R. L., Choi, Y., & Hajishirzi, H. (2021). Generated Knowledge Prompting for Commonsense Reasoning. ↩

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Valeriia Kuka, Head of Content at Learn Prompting, is passionate about making AI and ML accessible. Valeriia previously grew a 60K+ follower AI-focused social media account, earning reposts from Stanford NLP, Amazon Research, Hugging Face, and AI researchers. She has also worked with AI/ML newsletters and global communities with 100K+ members and authored clear and concise explainers and historical articles.