Advanced Prompting Techniques
20 min
What you will learn
- Use chain-of-thought prompting for complex reasoning
- Apply few-shot prompting with examples
- Know when to use system prompts vs user prompts
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Knowledge check
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Key takeaway
Chain-of-thought makes AI show its reasoning (and catch errors), few-shot examples set quality standards, and system prompts establish persistent behavior.
Practice Exercise
Hands-on practice — do this now to lock in what you learned
Open an AI assistant and try this:
Try few-shot prompting right now: 1. Write 2 examples of a format you commonly use at work (meeting notes, status updates, client summaries, etc.) 2. Paste them into an AI with the instruction: "Here are two examples of my format. Now create one for [specific situation]." 3. Compare the output quality to what you'd get without examples. Few-shot prompting is one of the highest-impact techniques available and takes almost no extra effort.
+10 XP when completed