Here are the key points from the video:
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Alex is a prompt engineer at Anthropic who helps people get the most out of Claude AI with a focus on safety.
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He got into prompt engineering after reading Anthropic’s paper on “Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms”.
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Prompt engineering is the practice of optimizing prompts to get the best response from language models.
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Anthropic takes an empirical, test-driven approach to prompt engineering.
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5 tips for getting the best performance from Claude:
- Describe the task clearly and specifically
- Use XML tags to mark different parts of the prompt
- Provide a wide range of examples
- Make use of the long context (up to 100,000 tokens)
- Allow Claude time to “think” through the response using thinking tags