Prompt Engineering via Prompt Patterns — Series Introduction

Ali Aslam
3 min readJan 13, 2024

With large language model based chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard entering the lives of millions of users, people have used these tools to solve a variety of problems they face in their daily lives. Most problems we face in our lives are not unique to us but are shared by many others. Now each person tried their own unique way to solve the common issue using large language models by tweaking and find tuning the prompts, and naturally, some were more successful than others. They boasted their success stories to others and researchers were able to get their hands on these creative solutions to common problems.

They gave it a name — Prompt Patterns.

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Let’s go over the terminologies first before diving into prompt patterns.

Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is the process of structuring text that can be interpreted and understood by a generative AI model. While this is the default definition, prompt engineering is also referred to as a technique used to optimize and fine tune large language models for particular tasks and desired outputs by carefully constructing…

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Ali Aslam

Avid Learner | Principal Software Engineer | Full Stack Developer