Tom Johnson - Principles of Prompt Engineering and How to Apply Them to Various API Docs Use Cases

Although AI tools provide tremendous potential, unless you know how to use these tools, much of that potential can be lost, with writers dismissing the tools as providing unreliable, error-filled text. In this session, I’ll explore some core principles of prompt engineering, such as breaking down complex tasks into subtasks, supplementing prompts with input context, applying chains of prompts, and more. I’ll explore these prompt engineering principles in the context of specific tech writing use cases with API documentation.

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This talk was presented at AI The Docs on April 3, 2024.

AI The Docs 2024 is an online conference about AI practices in API documentation and product management. It was powered by Pronovix and kindly supported by Cloudflare, Speakeasy, MongoDB, Inkeep, kapa ai and Pieces for Developers.


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