Behind the prompt: Prompting tips for Claude.ai


Summary

Alex Albert discusses prompting tips for Claude.ai, focusing on effective ways to interact with the AI model.

Key Points

  • Jailbreaking the models
  • Prompts written to circumvent the models
  • Take an empirical approach to writing prompts. Test against benchmarks.

5 Tips for Prompting

  1. Describe your task with specificity
  2. Mark parts of your prompt with XML tags (Claude has been fine-tuned to pay attention to their structure)
  3. Give examples
  4. Use the long context window
  5. Let Claude think (using <thinking> tags)
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