Building Bridges to Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to Prompt Engineering

 Introduction

An AI prompt is a way to talk to an artificial intelligence model using natural language. It helps the AI know what tasks to do or what outputs to create. This is how humans communicate with AI systems. The prompt gives instructions to a generative AI model to help it know what to produce.

Prompt Engineering is all about making good AI prompts to get the results we want. The instructions we give to the AI tool should be clear and specific. The input is the information we give to the AI model so it can respond. The output is what the AI model creates based on the input and instructions.

There are many types of prompts, but the main ones include the Informational Prompt, which is used to find specific facts or details; Creative Prompts, which help generate new content like stories, poems, or art; Instructional Prompts, which guide the AI to do a specific task; Clarification Prompts, which ask for more explanation or information; Hypothetical Prompts, which ask the AI to think about a "what if" situation; and Analytical Prompts, which require the AI to look at data or information closely.

Poem on Significance of  Prompt Language

A new tongue we learn to speak,
To whispers of machines so sleek.
Prompt's the key, a gentle guide,
To where AI's true powers hide.

Prompt Engineering, a brand new skill,
To bend the AI to our will.
Not magic words, but crafted phrase,
To navigate the digital haze.

Each phrase we shape, a magic spell,
To make the unseen, seen so well.
For in this skill, a future bright,
Where AI helps us, day and night.

A faithful helper, strong and true,
The AI can work, for me and you.
If we but learn the art to speak,
The knowledge that we all now seek.

Note: Poem has been generated through action-verb phrases