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Glossary · Prompt Engineering

What is Prompt Engineering?

The skill of writing and improving prompts so AI tools give accurate, useful output.

In more detail

It includes structuring prompts, giving examples, asking for step-by-step reasoning, requesting formats and iterating on results.

Example

Turning "help with resume" into a precise, constrained request.

Learn it properlyThe Anatomy of a Good Prompt: Role, Context, Task and Format9 min lesson · Prompt Engineering

Related terms

Chain-of-Thought PromptingAsking a model to reason through intermediate steps before giving its final answer.DelimitersMarkers like triple quotes or <tags> that separate instructions from the text you want processed.Few-Shot PromptingGiving a model a few input-output examples before the real input so it copies the pattern.PromptThe input you give an AI model — instructions, context, examples and data.Prompt InjectionAn attack where text inside the input tries to override the AI’s original instructions.System PromptBackground instructions that set an AI assistant’s role, rules and tone for a whole conversation.