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Prompt Engineering Best Practices for 2025

Alice Chen

2/5/2025

Why Prompts Matter

The same model can produce vastly different outputs based on how you prompt it.

Core Principles

1. Be Specific

2. Provide Context

3. Use Examples

Advanced Techniques

  • Chain of Thought
  • Self-Consistency
  • ReAct
  • Common Mistakes

  • Being too vague
  • Not specifying output format
  • Ignoring model limitations
  • Conclusion

    Prompt engineering is part science, part art. Practice, iterate, and learn.