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Prompt Engineering Fundamentals: A Working Framework

Move beyond "prompt tricks". A working framework for structured prompting, evaluation, and iterative refinement — with references to primary research.

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  1. The Framework
  2. Evaluating Prompts

Prompt engineering is closer to structured technical writing than to "magic incantations". This article outlines a lightweight framework you can use across LLMs.

The Framework

Define the task, provide reference material, constrain the output format, and give at least one worked example. Then evaluate against a rubric.

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Evaluating Prompts

A prompt is only as good as the criteria you evaluate its output against. Use held-out cases and blind ratings whenever possible.

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We link only to official websites, government portals, research papers, official documentation, academic publications, industry reports and vendor documentation.

  1. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3 paper) arXiv · Research Paper
  2. Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning arXiv · Research Paper
  3. OpenAI — Prompt Engineering Guide OpenAI · Official Documentation

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