Prompt Engineering

The way we interact with technology is constantly evolving. One of the most exciting recent advancements is in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), where machines are trained to think, learn, and even communicate like humans. Among the countless developments in areas such as generative AI, there’s a subtle art that’s gaining prominence: prompt engineering.

Prompt engineering is the process where you guide generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) solutions to generate desired outputs.

What is a prompt?

A prompt is a natural language text that requests the generative AI to perform a specific task. Generative AI is an artificial intelligence solution that creates new content like stories, conversations, videos, images, and music. It’s powered by very large machine learning (ML) models that use deep neural networks that have been trained on vast amounts of data.

The large language models (LLMs) are very flexible and can perform various tasks. For example, they can summarize documents, complete sentences, answer questions, and translate languages. For specific user input, the models work by predicting the best output that they determine from past training.