Mastering Prompting: Techniques for Better AI Responses
Workshop recording
Dr. Alvaro Cintas PhD AI Professor
6 chapters · 1h 11m · Beginner
About this course
Build clearer, more reliable prompts for AI tasks by choosing the right model, structuring requests with context and constraints, and applying techniques like zero-shot, few-shot, role prompting, prompt chaining, and reasoning-aware prompt.
What you'll learn
- Choose the Right Model Select the right model type for simple requests, creative work, coding, planning, logic, and other complex tasks.
- Apply Prompting Techniques Use zero-shot, few-shot, role, chain, tree-of-thought, and step-by-step patterns to match the task at hand.
- Structure Strong Prompts Create prompts with clear tasks, context, input data, constraints, tone, and output formats for more reliable responses.
- Prompt for Real Use Cases Adapt prompt patterns for coding, debugging, content creation, research, marketing, education, and style matching.
- Improve AI Outputs Refine weak prompts with clearer instructions, examples, delimiters, formatting requirements, and prompt improvement tools.
- Work Across AI Tools Manage long conversations, model costs, provider differences, and visual or audio prompting quirks more effectively.
Course curriculum
1 part · 6 chapters