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Prompting 101 - A Beginner's Guide to Communicating with LLMs

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This course introduces you to the essentials of interacting with Large Language Models (LLMs). You’ll learn why chatbots are increasingly relevant and how mastering the skill of prompting can significantly reduce work time. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll gain practical experience in crafting precise prompts, ensuring you can leverage LLMs for a variety of tasks.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14190264

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: prompting, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, NotebookLM, prompt engineering, LLM

Target audience: Beginner, Researcher, Students

Resource type: lessons

Status: Active

Prerequisites:

please make an account (if you already haven't) on
*MANDATORY https://chatgpt.com/ ChatGPT
* OPTIONAL https://aistudio.google.com/welcome Google AI studio that uses Gemini (but hosts other models too).
* OPTIONAL https://www.perplexity.ai/ Perplexity
* OPTIONAL https://claude.ai/login?returnTo=%2F%3F Claude

Learning objectives:

  • Write clear and concise prompts
  • Give context within prompts to improve response accuracy
  • Apply meta-prompting
  • Give examples of LLM use cases in every day life
  • Explain limitations and pitfalls of chatbots

Date created: 2024-11-20

Date modified: 2024-12-20

Date published: 2024-12-20

Authors: Diana Pilvar

Scientific topics: Natural language processing

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