Guide
How to Write a Good AI Prompt
The five parts of a complete prompt (goal, context, task, constraints, output format), with a worked rewrite and a pre-send checklist.
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Guides to better prompts
The techniques behind the library, explained with worked examples and grounded in the model vendors’ own documentation.
Guide
What Is Prompt Engineering? Core Techniques Explained
What prompt engineering is, the techniques the major model vendors agree on, the working loop behind them, and what prompting cannot fix.
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Technical guide
How to Use System Prompts
What a system prompt is, what belongs in it versus the user message, a worked example, and the limits to plan for when building on one.
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Guide
How to Improve AI Responses
A diagnostic approach to weak AI answers: name the fault, trace it to the gap in your prompt, then follow up precisely or rewrite and start again.
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Guide
Prompt Templates vs Prompts: What Is the Difference?
A prompt is one complete request; a template is a reusable prompt with named variables. When to use each and how to turn one into the other.
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Technical guide
Few-Shot Prompting: How to Use Examples in a Prompt
How to include worked examples in a prompt so the model follows a format, label set or style, and how to choose examples that generalize.
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Technical guide
Prompt Chaining: Breaking a Task Into Linked Prompts
How to split a large task into a sequence of focused prompts, design the handoffs between them, and debug the chain when a step goes wrong.
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Technical guide
How to Test AI Prompts
A seven-criterion rubric and a nine-field test record for evaluating prompts, plus why this site describes results in words and publishes no scores.
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