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LLM Prompt Engineering Simplified Book

This book on LLM prompt engineering consists of six parts.

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1️⃣ Introductory
covers basics related to Generative AI, LLMs and then discusses what is a prompt, different prompt elements and how to craft effective prompts.
2️⃣ Prompt Gallery
presents how to craft prompts for various tasks like text generation, text classification, information extraction (entity extraction, relation extraction), question answering, keyword extraction, text translation, text transliteration and text editing (spell checking, grammar correction and paraphrasing).
3️⃣ Progressive
discusses prompt engineering in detail, presents basic use cases of prompting (writing assistant, social media assistant and student mentor) and then explains basic prompting techniques like zero-shot prompting, few-shot prompting and batch prompting.

4️⃣ Mastery
discusses how to craft various prompt elements(prompt design guide), presents advanced use cases of prompting (coding assistant, data science mentor and synthetic data generator) and finally explains advanced prompting techniques like emotion prompting, plan and solve prompting, rephrase and response prompting, CoT prompting, zero-shot CoT prompting etc.

5️⃣ PE Job Preperation
discusses technical and non-technical skills required for a prompt engineering job, presents prompt engineering road map, explains the best practices and the future of prompt engineering.

6️⃣ Useful Resources

covers various libraries useful for a prompt engineer, different platforms providing free LLM access, presents various interesting papers related to LLMs and prompting techniques briefly, finally concludes with a brief overview of various important terms.