Prompt Design for Developers: Basic Principles
Prompts embedded in an app, unlike conversational prompts, require "reproducibility, robustness, and verifiability."
Basic Principles
- State role and constraints: fix what to do/not do at the top
Prompt Design for LLM Developers: Basic Principles
AI Navigate Original / 5/16/2026
Key Points
- App prompts require reproducibility, robustness, and verifiability
- State role/constraints, specify output format, use few-shot examples
- Separate user input as data; specify failure behavior
- Version-control prompts and prepare regression tests for model updates
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