A Tutorial on Prompt Engineering: From Messy Thoughts to AI Workflows
This paper treats prompt engineering as a discipline for turning informal human intent into structured AI work specifications. It develops the practice as a sequence of reusable design moves: define the work, construct only the context the answer depends on, choose a role, or a moderated panel of roles, as an attention lens, and state affirmative quality targets, reserving prohibitions for hard boundaries. To keep prompts lean, it adapts two classical principles, Occam's razor and Chekhov's gun, so that every instruction earns its place. For consequential tasks, it adds structured critique through steelmanning and premortems, followed by verification and, where tools or multi-step actions...
| Authors | Erfan Loweimi, Hadi Daneshvar, Samira Loveymi et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 5 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 5 September 2026 |
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