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Prompt Engineering with the OpenAI API

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829 reviews
Updated 06/2025
Dive deep into the principles and best practices of prompt engineering to leverage powerful language models like ChatGPT to solve real-world problems.
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Maximize AI Applications Through Effective Prompt Engineering

ChatGPT is a powerful language model that can generate human-like text for different applications. However, it is only as good as the prompts you provide. You need to know how to write effective prompts, and this is where prompt engineering comes in. Prompt engineering is carefully designing and crafting prompts to elicit desired responses from language models. It's an essential skill needed to use language models to their full potential. In this course, you'll dive deep into the principles and best practices of prompt engineering.

Take Your Prompt Engineering Skills To The Next Level

Prompt engineering is an emerging field that is essential in today's world. You'll learn to work with different prompts and select the ideal one for each task. Through practical exercises using the OpenAI API in Python, you'll gain hands-on experience crafting effective prompts specifically tailored for ChatGPT.

Solve Real-World Business Problems

Once you master prompt engineering, every problem becomes "one prompt away" from being solved. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge needed to write effective prompts for ChatGPT to solve various real-world problems and business applications.

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Working with the OpenAI API
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Introduction to Prompt Engineering Best Practices

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Advanced Prompt Engineering Strategies

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Prompt Engineering for Business Applications

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Prompt Engineering for Chatbot Development

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  • Andrés
    about 8 hours

  • Nalini
    about 16 hours

  • Jai
    about 19 hours

  • Amine
    1 day

  • Sathapana
    1 day

  • Quang
    1 day

    the course is cool, good for beginner

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