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Prompt Engineering

The practice of designing instructions and context so a model produces accurate, useful output.

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Prompt engineering is how people steer generative models without changing their weights. It covers clarity, role instructions, examples, constraints and output formats. Good prompts are specific about the task, the audience and the desired structure. As models improve, the craft shifts from trick phrases toward clear specification and iteration.

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System Prompt

High-level instructions that set a model's role, tone and rules before any user message.

Few-shot Learning

Guiding a model with a small number of examples in the prompt before asking it to complete a task.

Temperature

A setting that controls how random or creative a model's output is.

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