Advanced prompt engineering

Role prompting, chain-of-thought and few-shot examples applied to ecommerce work.

Advanced · Advanced · 10 min

Three techniques cover most of what's useful. Role prompting sets the perspective. Few-shot examples set the format and voice. Asking for the reasoning before the answer improves anything involving a judgement call.

Few-shot is the highest-return of the three for storefront copy: two or three examples of your own writing beat any amount of adjectives about tone.

Build prompts you reuse. A prompt you've refined over ten runs is an asset; a prompt you write from scratch each time is a chore.

Steps

• Convert your three best prompts into reusable templates with placeholders.
• Add two of your own copy samples to each as few-shot examples.
• For judgement tasks, ask for the reasoning first, then the output.
• Keep a note of what you changed and whether output improved.