All You Need to Know About Prompt Engineering

Learn to design clear, structured, and secure prompts that guide AI systems with confidence. Develop skills in context grounding, tool use, evaluation, and designing production-ready prompts.

Intermediate

20 Lessons

7h

Updated this week

Learn to design clear, structured, and secure prompts that guide AI systems with confidence. Develop skills in context grounding, tool use, evaluation, and designing production-ready prompts.

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Course Overview

This course teaches you how to design clear and reliable prompts that guide AI systems with confidence. You will learn to write precise objectives, define useful roles, manage ambiguity, and structure prompts to improve accuracy, stability, and output quality in everyday work. You will explore instruction design techniques that shape how models think and respond. These include few-shot prompting, schema-aligned outputs, style and persona control, advanced reasoning strategies, and careful control of creati...Show More

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Artificial Intelligence

Prompt Engineering

Generative Ai

What You'll Learn

The ability to design clear, structured prompts that reduce ambiguity and improve output reliability

Knowledge of how to control model behavior through roles, style, persona, few-shot prompting, and reasoning strategies

Hands-on experience grounding AI responses in context by working with long documents, citations, and secure prompt structures

The ability to integrate tools safely, ensuring proper permissions, error handling, and effective action selection strategies

The ability to evaluate and monitor prompts using testing, fairness checks, and data-driven production practices

What You'll Learn

The ability to design clear, structured prompts that reduce ambiguity and improve output reliability

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Course Content

1.

Getting Started

Master prompt engineering to design reliable AI inputs and optimize outputs.
2.

Introduction

Explore the core concepts of prompt engineering and its evolution.
3.

Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering

Master effective prompt engineering through clarity, structure, and practical application.
4.

Instruction Design

Master structured outputs, voice engineering, advanced reasoning, and creativity control in AI.
5.

Context and Grounding

Enhance AI reliability through grounding, citations, and robust security measures.
6.

Tools and Structured Actions

2 Lessons

Master the integration of tools and safety in AI agent development.
7.

Production and Operations

2 Lessons

Master data-driven prompt engineering for fairness, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
8.

Wrap Up

1 Lesson

Complete the course and practice how to effectively shape AI behavior and applications.

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