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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Prompt Engineering with Ollama

  • Grasping Ollama’s core capabilities and inherent limitations
  • Core principles of prompt engineering
  • Analyzing the dynamics between prompts and responses

Priming and Instruction Design

  • Establishing role-based instructional directives
  • Refining initial prompts to achieve task-specific results
  • Examining case studies of successful priming strategies

Chain-of-Thought and Reasoning Prompts

  • Fostering step-by-step logical reasoning
  • Structuring coherent and logical flow
  • Striking a balance between detail and precision

Prompt Templates and Reusability

  • Creating reusable prompt frameworks
  • Implementing dynamic context insertion
  • Scaling prompt engineering efforts through templates

Context Window Strategies

  • Optimizing limited context window usage
  • Utilizing summarization and context reduction methods
  • Applying sliding window and memory-based techniques

Multi-Stage Prompting

  • Linking prompts to handle complex tasks
  • Developing pipelines that utilize intermediate outputs
  • Employing iterative refinement and feedback mechanisms

Evaluation and Optimization

  • Establishing clear success metrics for prompts
  • Conducting systematic A/B testing of prompt strategies
  • Pursuing continuous improvement in prompting methods

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of large language models
  • Proficiency in Python programming
  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction patterns

Target Audience

  • Prompt engineers
  • Software developers
  • Product managers exploring Ollama capabilities

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