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:
š Prompting Techniquesāāā š Zero-Shotā āāā š Emotion Promptingā āāā š Role Promptingā āāā š Style Promptingā āāā š Self-Askāāāā š Few-Shotā āāā š Exemplar Generationā āāā š Exemplar Orderingā āāā š Exemplar Selectionāāāā š Thought Generationā āāā š Chain of Thoughtā āāā š Zero-Shot CoTā ā āāā š Analogical Promptingā ā āāā š Step-Back Promptingā ā āāā š Thread-of-Thoughtā āā āāā š Few-Shot CoTā āāā š Active-Promptā āāā š Auto-CoTā āāā š Memory-of-Thoughtā āāā š Prompt Miningāāāā š Ensemblingāāā š Self-Criticismāāā š 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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