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    Here's 2024's best resource on prompt engineering

    Explore the top prompt engineering resource of 2025, featuring a detailed taxonomy and links to further research.

    Matt Pocock
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    The Prompt Report is an extraordinary piece of work. It's a meta-analysis of the entire literature of prompt engineering. The Latent Space crew mentioned it as one of their top reads for 2025.

    The thing I love most about it is its careful taxonomy of different terms:

    ๐Ÿ“ Prompting Techniques
    โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“ Zero-Shot
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Emotion Prompting
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Role Prompting
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Style Prompting
    โ”‚ โ””โ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Self-Ask
    โ”‚
    โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“ Few-Shot
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Exemplar Generation
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Exemplar Ordering
    โ”‚ โ””โ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Exemplar Selection
    โ”‚
    โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“ Thought Generation
    โ”‚ โ””โ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“ Chain of Thought
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“ Zero-Shot CoT
    โ”‚ โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Analogical Prompting
    โ”‚ โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Step-Back Prompting
    โ”‚ โ”‚ โ””โ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Thread-of-Thought
    โ”‚ โ”‚
    โ”‚ โ””โ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“ Few-Shot CoT
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Active-Prompt
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Auto-CoT
    โ”‚ โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Memory-of-Thought
    โ”‚ โ””โ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Prompt Mining
    โ”‚
    โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Ensembling
    โ”œโ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Self-Criticism
    โ””โ”€โ”€ ๐Ÿ“„ Decomposition

    Yes, this isn't even all of the different techniques mentioned. It even goes into multimodal and multi-lingual techniques, as well as security.

    Each section links to further papers. This makes it an ideal place to start if you're looking for more detail in this area.