Here's 2024's best resource on prompt engineering
Matt Pocock
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.
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