Best of 2024: The Art of Prompt Engineering with Alex Banks, Founder and Educator, Sunday Signal

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Dec 23, 2024

Alex Banks, founder of Sunday Signal and educator in prompt engineering, shares his journey into AI and the art of crafting effective prompts. He discusses how prompt engineering can enhance interactions with AI models and its rising importance in the job market. Alex emphasizes storytelling's transformation through AI and offers strategies for mastering prompts to improve results. The conversation also touches on the future of AI advancements, including models like GPT-5, and the exciting potential awaiting those skilled in prompt crafting.

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ADVICE

Effective Prompting

Create effective ChatGPT prompts by prioritizing clarity and specificity.
Include relevant context and details to guide the model's responses.

ADVICE

Persona-Problem-Solution Framework

Use the Persona-Problem-Solution framework for effective prompting.
Define the persona, specify the problem, and detail the desired solution format.

INSIGHT

Self-Reflection in LLMs

Phrases like "take a deep breath" or "think step by step" can improve ChatGPT outputs.
These prompts encourage self-reflection within the language model.

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As we look back at 2024, we're highlighting some of our favourite episodes of the year, and with 100 of them to choose from, it wasn't easy!

The four guests we'll be recapping with are:

Lea Pica - A celebrity in the data storytelling and visualisation space. Richie and Lea cover the full picture of data presentation, how to understand your audience, how to leverage hollywood storytelling and more. Out December 19.
Alex Banks - Founder of Sunday Signal. Adel and Alex cover Alex’s journey into AI and what led him to create Sunday Signal, the potential of AI, prompt engineering at its most basic level, chain of thought prompting, the future of LLMs and more. Out December 23.
Don Chamberlin - The renowned co-inventor of SQL. Richie and Don explore the early development of SQL, how it became standardized, the future of SQL through NoSQL and SQL++ and more. Out December 26.
Tom Tunguz - general Partner at Theory Ventures, a $235m VC firm. Richie and Tom explore trends in generative AI, cloud+local hybrid workflows, data security, the future of business intelligence and data analytics, AI in the corporate sector and more. Out December 30.

Since the launch of ChatGPT, one of the trending terms outside of ChatGPT itself has been prompt engineering. This act of carefully crafting your instructions is treated as alchemy by some and science by others. So what makes an effective prompt?

Alex Banks has been building and scaling AI products since 2021. He writes Sunday Signal, a newsletter offering a blend of AI advancements and broader thought-provoking insights. His expertise extends to social media platforms on X/Twitter and LinkedIn, where he educates a diverse audience on leveraging AI to enhance productivity and transform daily life.

In the episode, Alex and Adel cover Alex’s journey into AI and what led him to create Sunday Signal, the potential of AI, prompt engineering at its most basic level, strategies for better prompting, chain of thought prompting, prompt engineering as a skill and career path, building your own AI tools rather than using consumer AI products, AI literacy, the future of LLMs and much more.

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