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Write effective prompts for LLMs — structure, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, system prompts, and output parsing.

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# Prompt Engineering

Write prompts that get reliable, high-quality output from LLMs.

## Core Principles

1. **Be specific** — vague prompts get vague results
2. **Show, don't tell** — examples beat instructions
3. **Structure the output** — tell the model exactly what format you want
4. **Iterate** — prompts are code; test and refine them

## Techniques

### System Prompts