A Prompt Pattern Catalog to Enhance Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Prompt engineering is an increasingly important skill set needed to converse effectively with large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT. Second, it presents a catalog of patterns that have been applied successfully to improve the outputs of LLM conversations.

🔑 Key Findings

• Prompts are instructions given to an LLM to enforce rules, automate processes, and ensure specific qualities (and quantities) of generated output.
• Prompts are also a form of programming that can customize the outputs and interactions with an LLM.
• This paper describes a catalog of prompt engineering techniques presented in pattern form that have been applied to solve common problems when conversing with LLMs.

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