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:
π Prompting Techniquesβββ π Zero-Shotβ βββ π Emotion Promptingβ βββ π Role Promptingβ βββ π Style Promptingβ βββ π Self-Askββββ π Few-Shotβ βββ π Exemplar Generationβ βββ π Exemplar Orderingβ βββ π Exemplar Selectionββββ π Thought Generationβ βββ π Chain of Thoughtβ βββ π Zero-Shot CoTβ β βββ π Analogical Promptingβ β βββ π Step-Back Promptingβ β βββ π Thread-of-Thoughtβ ββ βββ π Few-Shot CoTβ βββ π Active-Promptβ βββ π Auto-CoTβ βββ π Memory-of-Thoughtβ βββ π Prompt Miningββββ π Ensemblingβββ π Self-Criticismβββ π 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.
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