Prompt Engineering Guidelines and Best Practices
In this chapter, we embark on an exploration of how the latest advancements in technology are reshaping our interaction with digital tools and applications. As the digital landscape evolves, the traditional interfaces we’ve relied upon for decades are being reimagined, paving the way for more intuitive and efficient forms of communication between humans and machines. At the heart of this transformation is the advent of conversational interfaces powered by natural language (NL). As a result, understanding how to write effective prompts to customize the behavior of our LlamaIndex components becomes a critical skill in building and improving RAG applications.
Therefore, in this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Why prompts are your secret weapon
- Understanding how LlamaIndex uses prompts
- Customizing default prompts
- The golden rules of prompt engineering
