4 Free Prompt Engineering Courses to Join The Top 1% of ChatGPT Users

Learn prompt engineering with these free resources.

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In this week’s guest post, Diana is sharing with us free prompt engineering courses to master ChatGPT. Diana runs a Substack called AI Girl, a weekly newsletter that helps you learn how to use AI in different areas.

Lately she wrote a review about Duolingo Max (Duolingo with AI features) and a guide on how to learn a foreign language using ChatGPT. Check them out!

As you might know, prompt engineering is a skill that you need to have to master ChatGPT. Today, you can learn prompt engineering from scratch with some free courses and resources that I’ve listed in this article.

Here are the best free prompt engineering resources on the internet.

Note: Prompt engineering is a field less than 2 years old or so. Make sure to stay up to date with the latest papers and supplement your learning with up-to-date guides.

1. OpenAI Course and Guide

This first resource isn’t extensive, but I wanted to put it at the top of the list because it’s a short course made in collaboration with OpenAI.

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers is a course that describes how large language models (LLM) work, provides best practices for prompt engineering, and shows how LLM APIs can be used in apps for a variety of tasks, including:

• Summarizing: Summarizing user reviews for brevity

• Inferring: Sentiment classification, topic extraction

• Transforming text: Translation, spelling & grammar correction

• Expanding; Automatically writing emails

The course is beginner-friendly, and in my opinion, it’s useful for any ChatGPT user even if you don’t have much coding experience.

OpenAI also has a guide about the best practices for prompt engineering. In the guide, you’ll see a list of dos and don’ts for prompting. Here are some of the concepts and tips covered in the guide:

• Be specific, descriptive, and as detailed as possible about the desired context, outcome, length, format, style, etc

• Articulate the desired output format through examples

• Zero-shot prompt and Few-shot prompt

• Instead of just saying what not to do, say what to do instead

• Parameters (very useful for API and Playground users)

The OpenAI guide is a good starting point for familiarizing yourself with prompt engineering, so I highly recommend you check it out.

2. Learn Prompting

Learn prompting is an extensive Notion documentation to learn prompt engineering from scratch.

The lessons cover core concepts that don’t require programming knowledge like what’s artificial intelligence to advanced concepts like prompt tuning.

Here’s the content in the first module.

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But that’s not all! There are many more modules that are very well organized from beginner to advanced. The lessons are split into four levels: green, yellow, red, and purple which represent Beginner-friendly, easy, intermediate, and advanced levels, respectively.

Another cool thing about the site is that there’s an exclusive section for image prompting that will help you make the most of AI tools like Midjourney.

Click here to visit Learn Prompting

Free YouTube Mini Courses

There are some small courses on YouTube that are worth watching if you’re new to prompt engineering.

First, we have this Beginner’s Guide to Prompt Engineering with GPT-4 which is basically an overview of prompt engineering that covers the following concepts:

• What’s Prompt Engineering?

• What’s OpenAI Playground?

• Role Prompting

• Shot Prompting

• Chain of Thought Prompting

• Opportunities for Prompt Engineers

The second video is a 30-minute ChatGPT prompt engineering course, which covers core concepts like basic terminology such as NLP, LLM, AI, etc, as well as prompting use cases, some parameters you need to know, and important skills to become a prompt engineer.

Prompt Engineering Guide

The last resource is a guide that contains the latest papers, guides, models, lectures, references, and tools related to prompt engineering.

The information you’ll find in this guide is similar to the previous resources, but unlike the other options, this guide isn’t only available in English but also in other languages.

Click here to read the Prompt Engineering Guide

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Do you have a secret resource to learn prompt engineering? Share it in the comment section, so we all learn prompt engineering together! 👇