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AI Demystified
Abhishek Saha
Abhishek Saha · 🤖 AI / ML

Prompt Engineering — How to Talk to AI

Five techniques that cover 95% of real-world prompt engineering. Zero-shot, few-shot, role prompting, chain-of-thought, and structured output — with before/after examples.

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Prompt Engineering — How to Talk to AI

Prompt engineering is how you get AI to do what you actually want. Most people type a sentence and hope for the best — this component shows you the five techniques that separate weak prompts from strong ones.

PROMPT ENGINEERING— how to talk to AI

Five techniques that cover 95% of real use cases. Each one solves a specific type of prompt failure.

WEAK PROMPT
Translate this to French.
⚠ What text? Which dialect? What tone? The model has to guess everything.

Next up: Now you know how to talk to AI. But how does it actually store what it knows? That’s the world of embeddings and vector databases — the memory layer that powers semantic search and RAG.

AI Demystified · 16 of 21 published

  1. 0 Grounding 5 Mental Models You Need Before Diving Into AI
  2. 1 Foundation What Happens When You Ask AI Something?
  3. 2 Foundation Transformers — The Architecture That Changed Everything
  4. 3 Foundation How AI Learns, Thinks, and Decides
  5. 4 Foundation How AI Reads Your Words
  6. 5 Foundation Why AI Forgets
  7. 6 Foundation Why AI Lies (And Doesn't Know It)
  8. 7 Foundation What AI Cannot Do
  9. 8 Foundation How AI Reasons (And Why It Sometimes Breaks)
  10. 9 Practice Prompt Engineering — How to Talk to AI
  11. 10 Practice Embeddings & Vector Databases — The Memory Layer of AI
  12. 11 Practice RAG Explained — How AI Knows What You Didn't Train It On
  13. 12 Practice Fine-tuning vs. Prompting — When to Use Which
  14. 13 Practice Do You Really Need GPT-4?
  15. 14 Practice Latency, Tokens, and Cost — The Physics of AI Products
  16. 15 Practice How Do You Know AI Is Actually Working?
  17. 16 Hands-On Coding Setup — Your AI Development Environment soon
  18. 17 Hands-On MCP Tool Calling — How AI Uses Tools soon
  19. 18 Hands-On AI Agents — Beyond Chatbots soon
  20. 19 Hands-On Build Your First Real AI App soon
  21. 20 Hands-On Token Optimization — Spend Less, Get More soon
← Part 8 How AI Reasons (And Why It Sometimes Breaks) Part 10 → Embeddings & Vector Databases — The Memory Layer of AI
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