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Cracking the code on prompts: A Guide to Maximizing Your Large Language Model

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You grab your morning cup of coffee as your mind races ahead to the day's writing tasks. The expected progress report. An overdue set of customer service guidelines to draft. And what about that humor article idea you've been thinking about? Your own human brainpower falters in the face of such a demanding workload. But increase your potential productivity by 10 or even 100 times by putting a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) to work for you through skilled prompting.

"Prompting activates everything the model then produces," points out Scott Count, Ph.D., lead researcher at Anthropic, creators of the constitutional AI assistant Claude. "With the right prompting strategy, over 50% of prompts will reliably produce excellent LLM results." We break down the key facets of prompting to maximize results from mediocre to great.

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