Prompt Engineering — Theory and Research

Erik Blakkestad
Prompt Trainer
Published in
5 min readMar 16, 2023

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“What is more likely is that gen AI will augment rather than forge new roles. That is, prompt engineering will be a skill — preferred for some, required for others — that employees cultivate.” — VentureBeat

“Sometimes a prompt is essentially a sequence of words, like prompting your computer terminal — a command,” Ballesteros explains. “But ‘prompt’ is also used to refer to soft prompts, a vector; these are also called task-specific embeddings or task embeddings. Task embeddings help models to perform mode switching. For example, a vector that indicates that the text to be generated should be in one language or another is known as a language vector.” — Miguel Ballesteros, a principal applied scientist with Amazon Web Services’ AI Labs.

AI Monks.IO — Ultimate ChatGPT Prompt Guide for 2024

InfoQ — OpenAI Publishes GPT Prompt Engineering Guide

Mailbutler — ChatGPT + AI statistics and trends — (Updated January 2024)

Koray Tugberk — Generative AI Marketing Trends 2024

SHRM Labs — Prompt Engineering for HR

eWeek — The Ultimate Guide to Prompt Engineering

Towards Data Science — Prompt Engineering Could Be the Hottest Programming Language of 2024 — Here’s Why

By far, the best curated list of AI research and resources is found in the blog post AI Cannon by Andreessen Horowitz.

The following is my list of AI articles, research, and resources that is continuously being curated.

The Model That Changes Everything: Alpaca Breakthrough

The PyCoach — OpenAI is Trying to Kill Prompt Engineering With The Latest ChatGPT and DALL-E Updates

2023 Prompt Engineering Conference — The world’s first conference about prompt engineering as a discipline

Gizmodo — Stanford Researchers Take Down Alpaca AI Due to ‘Hallucinations’ and Rising Costs

Generative AI — How AI will Kill the Internet

Harvard Business Review — Improve Your Company’s Use of AI with a Structured Approach to Prompts

AI Index Report — Measuring Trends in Artificial Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/@PromptEngineeringConf

Interesting Engineering — Alpaca AI: Stanford researchers clone ChatGPT AI for just $600

Politico — AI might have already set the stage for the next tech monopoly

Music Business Worldwide — Focus on harms that have already taken place

AI21 Studio — Prompt Engineering

Anul Agarwal — I am using ChatGPT to animate my characters, in less than 5 minutes.

Amazon — EMNLP: Prompt engineering is the new feature of engineering

Anthropic — Job Listing for Prompt Engineer

Dare to Be Better — xAI PromptIDE Is the Missing AI Prompting Tool We’ve Been Waiting For

Every — Linus Lee is Living with AI

Fireflies.ai — Top Trends to Watch Out for in 2023

FourWeekMBA — Prompt Engineering

Fortune — Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead

Prompt Engineering, RAG, and Fine-tuning: Benefits and When to Use

“Generative AI, Huang said, is “Closing the technology divide. You don’t have to be a C++ programmer to be successful,” he said. “You just have to be a prompt engineer. And who can’t be a prompt engineer? When my wife talks to me, she’s prompt engineering me. … We all need to learn how to prompt AIs, but that’s no different than learning how to prompt teammates.” — TechRepublic

Visual Capitalist — Which Jobs Will Be Most Impacted by ChatGPT?

TechCrunch — TTT models might be the next frontier in generative AI

Juro — A guide to legal prompt engineering in 2024

CNBC — The valuation reckoning: When AI startup darlings hit stratospheric levels

Decodem.ai — The Future of Prompt Engineering in the AI Economy: Opportunities and Challenges

eWeek- Artificial Intelligence (hub)

Google — Automatic Prompt Engineer

MarkTechPost — Roadmap to Becoming a Prompt Engineer

MarkTechPost — AI Research Case Study from Microsoft Reveals How Medprompt Enhances GPT-4’s Specialist Capabilities in Medicine

Mark Schaefer — ChatGPT Starter Pack: 10 Amazing Prompts to Improve Your Business Now

What is Prompt Tuning?

New Atlas — Glaze tool messes with digital art so AIs can’t steal your style

One Useful Thing — It’s Starting to Get Strange

Keytalk AI — Keytalk AI’s innovative Prompt Engineering Unleashes Generative AI’s Potential, Disrupting Industry Titans

One Useful Thing — Automating Creativity

Jonathan Shriftman — The Building Blocks of Generative AI

Joe Procopio — Um. Hi. This is What Generative AI Is For. It’s For When SaaS Is Dead.

PRDaily — 5 new AI roles for PR pros

ITWire — The future of AI and prompt engineering

Somnath Singh — Bill Gates: People Don’t Realize What’s Coming

The Atlantic — Talking to AI might be the most important job skill of this century

The New Stack — Beyond Prompt Engineering: Governing Prompts and AI Models

Unite AI — From Prompt Engineering to Few-Shot Learning: Enhancing AI Model Responses

Warp News — Chain of Thought prompts yield astonishingly good results

Towards Data Science — 2023 Predictions: What’s Next For AI Research?

UCLA Anderson Review — AI from AI: a Future of Generic and Biased Online Content?

ZDNet — Generative AI can’t find its own errors. Do we need better prompts?

Prompt Engineering for Web Devs — ChatGPT and Bard Tutorial

Making Money Using AI

CNBC — Two friends used AI and $185 to start a side hustle — they just sold it for $150,000: ‘It prints money’

Nech Cloud — 3 Interesting AI Side Hustles You Can Start Without Any Money

Banyan Hill — ChatGPT Sparked a New AI Disruption in Education

The future of prompt engineering is likely to be characterized by several key trends and developments. First, we can expect to see a greater emphasis on the development of more sophisticated prompt generation techniques that can create prompts that are more diverse, context-aware, and adaptive. Second, we can expect to see a greater focus on interpretability and explainability, as researchers and practitioners seek to build more trustworthy and reliable AI systems. Finally, we can expect to see a growing awareness of the ethical and social implications of AI, leading to the development of more responsible and transparent AI systems.” — Decodem.ai

Eleuther.ai (blog)

Search Engine Land — An SEO’s guide to ChatGPT prompts

Vellum.ai — Why is Collaborating on Prompt Engineering so Difficult?

Trend Statistics — AI Prompt Engineering Statistics (April 2023)

Prompt Engineering in Education

Generative AI — The Choices We Make in Chatbot-Assisted Writing

Copyright Law

Lexology — Q &A with Louis Tompros

The Next Spotify — How will AI impact Spotify and other music streaming services?

Enrique Dans — How much is data worth in the age of Generative AI?

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Erik Blakkestad
Prompt Trainer

Hack wordsmith with flimsy story ideas, no motivation and incurable writer’s block