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Glossary Term Prompt Engineering

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What is Prompt Engineering?

Prompt engineering designs LLM inputs using techniques like few-shot and chain-of-thought to produce accurate outputs and resist prompt injection.

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Understanding Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is the practice of designing and refining the inputs given to large language models to elicit accurate, relevant, and safe outputs. Techniques include zero-shot and few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought reasoning, role assignment, and explicit constraints or output formatting. From a security standpoint, well-engineered prompts and system instructions help mitigate prompt injection and jailbreak attempts that try to override intended model behavior.

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