Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics

Course Overview

As generative AI (GenAI) continues to reshape the workplace and redefine job roles, the ability to use it effectively is becoming a must-have skill. Prompt engineering is the key to effectively guiding GenAI models and controlling their output to produce desired results. This course is designed for professionals, executives, students, and AI enthusiasts who want to ​​leverage the power of prompt engineering to maximize the capabilities of GenAI tools like ChatGPT. You’ll learn practical techniques, structured approaches, and best practices for crafting effective prompts​.​ Explore core prompting techniques like zero-shot and few-shot to enhance the reliability and quality of large language model (LLM) outputs. Learn practical approaches such as the Interview Pattern, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thought to generate more accurate responses. Gain hands-on experience with advanced methods like multimodal prompting, the playoff method, and image generation techniques. Learn to craft prompts that blend text and visuals and evaluate AI responses more effectively. The techniques and approaches are taught using hands-on labs and projects using real-world-inspired examples. You will also hear from practitioners about the techniques and approaches used in prompt engineering and the art of writing effective prompts.