The Art of AI Prompt Engineering Half-Day Course

Dive into the world of Prompt Engineering with this interactive half-day course, ideal for those relatively familiar with Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. This course emphasises exploring the nuances of crafting effective prompts through direct experimentation.

Participants will engage in group discussions, use their own real use-cases and share experiences to enrich understanding. Together, you'll learn when and how different prompt engineering strategies should be used, learn how to iteratively improve prompts, delve into the concept of meta-prompting, and co-create some AI best practice based on research around ethical use of AI.

This course is a carefully held collaborative journey deeper into world of generative AI, fostering a community of learners who share insights and learn from each other's experiences, and encouraging constant reflection as we go.

Course Overview

Who Should Attend

  • Individuals with at least some experience using Large Language Models (LLM), eager to delve deeper into Generative AI interactions.
  • AI enthusiasts interested in collaborative learning and knowledge-exchange in prompt engineering with their peers.

Course Aims

  • To explore insights and guidelines on prompt engineering from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
  • To discuss and compare different prompt formulas across different LLM models.
  • To realise the breadth of prompt design, from simplicity to complexity.
  • To delve into meta-prompting techniques for nuanced AI interactions.
  • To get a basic understanding of ethical and legal issues and design personal best practice around it.

Course Outline

  1. Our Use Cases
    • Define Prompt Engineering and Prompt Design.
    • Co-create a set of use-cases to use as examples throughout the workshop.
  1. Understanding Prompt Engineering Strategies
    • Compare and contrast the suggested strategies from Open AI, Anthropic, and Google.
    • Experiment with improving basic prompts using these strategies.
  1. Playing with Prompt Formulas
    • Exploring the impact of both simple and elaborate prompts.
    • Collaborative exercises to design and evaluate diverse prompts.
  1. Delving into Meta-Prompting Techniques
    • Observe some prompts that use the LLM as a copilot.
    • Individual and group exercises to experiment with using the Generative AI tools in this way.
  1. Overview of Current Ethical and Legal Concerns
    • Using skills from the course, rapidly identify and summarise some of the big ethical concerns connected to prompt engineering.
    • Learn about recent legal case studies around copyright and recommendations for best practice.

Next Steps

  • Access to advanced resources and further courses for continuous exploration in AI.
  • Opportunities to join a community for ongoing learning and peer interaction in the field of AI.

Group Learning Events

If you have three or more learners, a private group course could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy's HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

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Get in touch

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

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The Small Print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for half a day, consisting of two 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the training session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For Mac Users

For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users (if relevant) and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

If you have any questions or concerns, contact our friendly team, available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Your post-course support package

  • Included in the price of both online and classroom programmes
  • 2 years of free access to our IT Helpline
  • Unlimited access - call or email our team as often as you need
  • Ask about any content covered on your course