Learn to prompt language models effectively by understanding the intuition behind prompts as magic spells. Explore techniques such as decomposition, reasoning, and reflection to enhance your prompting skills. This course is designed for individuals interested in improving their ability to prompt language models for various applications.
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Language models are statistical models of text
But "statistical model" gives bad intuition
Prompts are magic spells
Prompts are portals to alternate universes
A prompt can make a wish come true
A prompt can create a golem
Limitations of LLMs as simulators
Prompting techniques are mostly tricks
Few-shot learning isn't the right model for prompting
Character-level operations are hard
The prompting playbook: reasoning, reflection, & ensembling
Taught by
The Full Stack
