Prompt Engineering

Undergraduate

Fundamentals of prompt-based engineering for programming and problem solving, strategies, pitfalls, best practices. Review of important and recent literature. Advanced prompting approaches including Chain-of-Thought and Self-Consistency, and leveraging prompt-based systems large language models as optimizers. Real-world applications, current limitations, and future directions of research. Course Format: Lectures, 3 hours per week, labs, 1 hour per week. Prerequisite(s): COSC 2P03 (60% minimum) or permission of the instructor.