AI Prompt Engineering Guide

What’s inside

A working prompt engineer’s reference. Twenty-plus techniques (chain-of-thought, role prompting, few-shot, structured output, and more) with concrete templates you can copy. Plus a troubleshooting guide for when AI gives you garbage.

• 10 core prompting techniques with examples
• 50+ ready-to-use prompt templates organized by category
• Advanced patterns: chain-of-thought, role-based, structured output, multi-step
• Troubleshooting guide: why AI hallucinates and how to reduce it
• Department-specific prompt collections (HR, finance, marketing, operations)
• Prompt evaluation rubric: how to tell a good prompt from a bad one

Who should use this

Anyone who has tried AI a few times and is frustrated with mediocre results.

• Knowledge workers using AI daily who want to go further
• Trainers building internal AI curricula
• Power users curious about advanced patterns

Key outcomes

After using this resource, you’ll be able to:

• Get usable output from AI on the first try (not the fifth)
• Build a personal prompt library worth saving
• Recognize when a prompt — not the model — is the problem
• Teach prompt skills to your team

How to use

Pick one technique each week. Try it on real work. Save the prompts that worked into a personal library. After eight weeks you’ll have an excellent base.