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Prompt Engineering

While slurping the much-needed coffee after breakfast, I stumbled upon a video about prompt engineering. This is a new-fangled expression, and had it not been for Large Language Models, I believe the world would have been a much-depressed place. Joking aside, it is a fascinating topic, and the more I delve into it, the more intriguing it became. 

It all began with my heightened curious whether AI could help me improve the languages I speak - primarily English, but I also experimented with French, Spanish, and German. And the more sophisticated my instructions were, the worse the responses from ChatGPT got. I spent hours, if not days, trying to figure out how to create the holy grail of prompts that could fit all my needs, but I failed miserably each time. 

Considering all the tribulations and hardships I had to endure, today's video about prompt engineering proved to be handy. I'm still not a master at crafting meaningful prompts, but I'm getting much closer. It became evident that to utilise this tool accurately and exploit its full potential, additional knowledge is paramount. Fortunately, the internet is a mesmerising source of information; therefore, finding proper resources is only a matter of time and serendipity.

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