Day 3: The 5 Principles of Effective AI Prompting

About this Workshop

The five principles of effective prompting: direction, format, examples, quality, and divide labor, plus the conversation habits that keep AI on track.

This is part of the AI Bootcamp. Click here to learn more.

What you'll learn

• The five principles: give direction, specify format, provide examples, evaluate quality, divide labor
• Role assignment and task framing: telling AI who it is, what it's doing, and why it matters
• Delimiters, XML tags, and templates that make output predictable instead of a guess
• Chain-of-thought, self-verification, and prompt chaining for higher-accuracy answers
• Conversation management: context windows, one chat per task, and how to hand AI reference material

Teacher

• Travis Alstrand

  I'm a lifelong learner who is motivated by helping others on their learning journey and seeing them succeed. I'm passionate about web and game development.