Prompt Engineering

 



There are a lot of videos out there talking about ChatGPT and promising to teach you how to use the chatbot. Many of them are good, too. But here is one by "Obscurious"  that will explain to you how prompt-engineering works and why it is important if you want to get better results from your chat sessions. The better questions one asks, the better answer the bot can give, and the more useful the result will be for your work.

Designing prompts could even work as a potential assignment in the composition classroom!


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