Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Prompt engineering - Claude prompt library and other resources

 Prompt engineering is part of AI literacies and as interaction with Gen AI platforms/tools/apps increases, the competency to be able to effectively use prompt engineering has increased.

A theoretical approach to prompt engineering is offered by this IBM video whereby the approaches are based on computer science principles or algorithms.

For educational and pedagogical approaches, the paper by Mollick & Mollick (2023) recommends the assignation of a role to AI, usually as a coach/mentor. The role undertaken by AI, guides the types and tone of conversation with the AI. 

Good examples can now be found through the Claude AI prompt library. There are dozens of prompts to get things started for work, study and leisure tasks. These are useful in education as examples that can be deconstructed by learners, for them to work out the main principles for prompt engineering

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