Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques
33mAdvanced2026-06-30
Authors
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Senior Staff Instructor, Speaker, Web Designer, and Software Developer
Course details
When developing AI-powered applications, you move beyond conversational prompting to more advanced strategies. In this course, we’ll explore advanced prompting techniques and strategies like Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought, clarifying how they work, what sets them apart, and what they are for.
Learning objectives
Difference between prompt design (ChatGPT) and prompt engineering
What is Chain-of-Though prompting
What is Tree-of-Thought prompting
Understanding why there are different approaches to prompting.
Learning objectives
Difference between prompt design (ChatGPT) and prompt engineering
What is Chain-of-Though prompting
What is Tree-of-Thought prompting
Understanding why there are different approaches to prompting.
Skills covered
Generative AIArtificial Intelligence FoundationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)One-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Prompting to make AI systems more useful
- How to use the exercise files
Prompting Techniques
- Reference prompting
- Zero-shot and few-shot prompting
- Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting
- Take a deep breath and work step by step
- Generated knowledge prompting
- Tree-of-thought (ToT) prompting
- Directional stimulus prompting
- Chain-of-density (CoD) prompting
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