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Prompt engineering

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Prompt engineering

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- I'm Xavier Amatriain. I'm VP of engineering AI product strategy here at LinkedIn, and I lead generative AI initiatives across product engineering. In the context of generative AI, a prompt is simply what you use to communicate with the AI, and it can be as simple as a question, and as complex as a very complicated construct that includes a lot of different components. So generally speaking, a prompt can have any of the following: instructions, a question, input data, and examples. So what is prompt engineering? Prompt engineering is a new discipline that is appearing nowadays, and it's very hard to define, because it's being created as we speak, but it includes all the necessary components to manage prompts at a certain scale. And as I said before, a prompt can be very complex, right? It can be as simple as a question, or it can be a set of examples. It can have instructions, it can have code, it can have all…

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