Learn Prompting🟢 Introduction
Now, let’s dive into advanced prompting techniques. Sander Schulhoff, the founder of Learn Prompting, published The Prompt Report, the most comprehensive survey on prompting to date. In this report, he categorized prompting techniques into six main classifications:
While many techniques overlap across these classifications, each one generally has a primary category that it fits best. Read on to explore these different classes of techniques and how they are used.
These sections are currently being frequently updated.
Sander Schulhoff
Sander Schulhoff is the CEO of HackAPrompt and Learn Prompting. He created the first Prompt Engineering guide on the internet, two months before ChatGPT was released, which has taught 3 million people how to prompt ChatGPT. He also partnered with OpenAI to run the first AI Red Teaming competition, HackAPrompt, which was 2x larger than the White House's subsequent AI Red Teaming competition. Today, HackAPrompt partners with the Frontier AI labs to produce research that makes their models more secure. Sander's background is in Natural Language Processing and deep reinforcement learning. He recently led the team behind The Prompt Report, the most comprehensive study of prompt engineering ever done. This 76-page survey, co-authored with OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Princeton, Stanford, and other leading institutions, analyzed 1,500+ academic papers and covered 200+ prompting techniques.
Decomposition
Ensembling
Few-Shot
Self-Criticism
Thought Generation
Zero-Shot
Footnotes
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Schulhoff, S., Ilie, M., Balepur, N., Kahadze, K., Liu, A., Si, C., Li, Y., Gupta, A., Han, H., Schulhoff, S., Dulepet, P. S., Vidyadhara, S., Ki, D., Agrawal, S., Pham, C., Kroiz, G., Li, F., Tao, H., Srivastava, A., … Resnik, P. (2024). The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06608 ↩