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Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering

📖One-line summary

The craft of designing and refining prompts to get the result you want from an LLM.

💡Easy explanation

The craft of writing the right 'script' for the AI. The same model gives wildly different answers depending on how you ask, so shaping the prompt matters.

✨Example

Refining the prompt makes results more reliable

Prompt: Summarize this
Result: (Too vague — results are inconsistent)

⚡Vibe coding prompt examples

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Write a system prompt for a customer support chatbot. Tone is polite and formal, it admits when it doesn't know, and it refuses anything that violates the refund policy.

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This prompt keeps producing rambling answers. Rewrite it to keep the same intent but force the output to be JSON containing only 5 key fields.

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Build a prompt for natural-language-to-SQL in PostgreSQL. It must output only the query, never DML/DDL, and refuse dangerous statements.

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