Prompt Engineering for Beginners: Better Prompts | AI Explained #11

Prompt Engineering for Beginners: Better Prompts – episode 11 of AI Concepts Explained, a free beginner-friendly AI and machine learning course by Irfan Hayat. Get better answers from AI chatbots. Irfan Hayat teaches prompt engineering fundamentals: clear instructions, context, roles, few-shot examples, step-by-step reasoning, output formats and iteration, with before-and-after examples and a reusable Python prompt template. What you'll learn • Why prompts change model behaviour • The anatomy of a strong prompt • Few-shot examples and output formats • Step-by-step reasoning and breaking tasks down • A reusable prompt template in Python Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:39 Why prompts matter 01:14 Anatomy of a strong prompt 01:54 Before and after 02:32 Few-shot, reasoning and iteration 03:15 A prompt template in Python 03:53 Parsing structured output 04:45 System prompts and roles 05:36 Common prompt mistakes 06:30 A reusable prompt recipe 07:18 Quick quiz 08:03 Recap 08:33 Next: RAG All slides, code examples and explanations are original. Narration uses a synthetic (text-to-speech) voice reading the instructor's original script. No music, third-party footage or logos are used. ▶ Full series: AI Concepts Explained playlist #PromptEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT