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Prompt engineering
What is a Prompt engineering?
Prompt engineering is the practice of writing and structuring instructions, examples and context for a language model so it produces accurate, consistent and safe output for a specific task.
Last reviewed · Dexorn Technologies
In production systems prompts are versioned, tested against example cases and combined with retrieval, tools and output validation.
It's a core skill taught in generative AI training programs.
Examples
- System instructions for a support agent
- Few-shot examples for extraction
- Output format rules (JSON)
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