Prompt Engineering - Basic Concepts For Developers

Concepts that you need to understand when trying to write non-trivial applications on top of LLMs.

► Recommended Reading, References & Acknowledgements
THE Book to read, unfortunately not yet published and only available in early access. Will add the final link once available.

"Prompt Engineering for LLMs" : https://learning.oreilly.com/library/...

► Source Repository
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► Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:24 The Example Project
01:10 Providers vs Models
01:43 OpenAI Playground
02:44 LLMs Basics
04:10 ChatAPI & ChatML
06:50 Context
10:10 IntelliJ IDEA - Context Example
11:41 Window Context Size / Token Limits
12:50 Tokenizer Libraries
13:38 Functions
18:01 Valley of Meh
20:32 3rd Person
21:43 Natural Language Texts vs Structured Documents
23:45 XML Completion Example
25:59 Error Handling
26:50 Choosing The Right Model
28:35 Outro

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