Here's 2024's best resource on prompt engineering

The Prompt Report is an extraordinary piece of work. It's a meta-analysis of the entire literature of prompt engineering. The Latent Space crew mentioned it as one of their top reads for 2025.

The thing I love most about it is its careful taxonomy of different terms:

📁 Prompting Techniques
├── 📁 Zero-Shot
│   ├── 📄 Emotion Prompting
│   ├── 📄 Role Prompting
│   ├── 📄 Style Prompting
│   └── 📄 Self-Ask
│
├── 📁 Few-Shot
│   ├── 📄 Exemplar Generation
│   ├── 📄 Exemplar Ordering
│   └── 📄 Exemplar Selection
│
├── 📁 Thought Generation
│   └── 📁 Chain of Thought
│       ├── 📁 Zero-Shot CoT
│       │   ├── 📄 Analogical Prompting
│       │   ├── 📄 Step-Back Prompting
│       │   └── 📄 Thread-of-Thought
│       │
│       └── 📁 Few-Shot CoT
│           ├── 📄 Active-Prompt
│           ├── 📄 Auto-CoT
│           ├── 📄 Memory-of-Thought
│           └── 📄 Prompt Mining
│
├── 📄 Ensembling
├── 📄 Self-Criticism
└── 📄 Decomposition

Yes, this isn't even all of the different techniques mentioned. It even goes into multimodal and multi-lingual techniques, as well as security.

Each section links to further papers. This makes it an ideal place to start if you're looking for more detail in this area.

Here's 2024's best resource on prompt engineering

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