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Prompt Engineering Author: Lee Boonstra Prompt Engineering February 2025 2 Acknowledgements Content contributors Michael Sherman Yuan Cao Erick Armbrust Anant Nawalgaria Antonio Gulli Simone Cammel Grace Mollison Technical Writer Joey Haymaker Designer Michael Lanning Introduction 6 Prompt engineering 7 LLM output configuration 8 Output length 8 Sampling controls 9 Temperature 9 Top-K and top-P 29 Self-consistency 32 Tree of Thoughts (ToT) 36 ReAct (reason & act) 37 Automatic Prompt Engineering 40 Code prompting 42 Prompts for writing code 42 Prompts for explaining code 44 Prompts for

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