Advanced AI Prompting

The most basic form of prompting is just an instruction, telling the model what to do. For basic tasks, simple instructions alone can be both time-efficient and effective. Often this form of prompting is all that is needed, the key is to be clear.

For tasks that are more complex, advanced prompting can create more effective instructions for enhanced response quality. Generally speaking, context prompting means including additional information as it relates to the instruction. More specifically the additional information can focus on the input (i.e. examples), the processing (i.e. steps), or the output (i.e. response format).

Specific techniques may or may not fit certain situations, in other cases they can be combined together into set of precise input instructions. While there are various ways to categorize prompting techniques, the following approaches encompass most of them.