arxiv:2406.06608

The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques

Published on Jun 6

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Authors:

Sander Schulhoff ,

Michael Ilie ,

Nishant Balepur ,

Konstantine Kahadze ,

Amanda Liu ,

Chenglei Si ,

Yinheng Li ,

HyoJung Han ,

Sevien Schulhoff ,

Pranav Sandeep Dulepet ,

Saurav Vidyadhara ,

Dayeon Ki ,

Sweta Agrawal ,

Gerson Kroiz ,

Hudson Tao ,

Ashay Srivastava ,

Megan L. Rogers

Abstract

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) systems are being increasingly deployed across all parts of industry and research settings. Developers and end users interact with these systems through the use of prompting or prompt engineering. While prompting is a widespread and highly researched concept, there exists conflicting terminology and a poor ontological understanding of what constitutes a prompt due to the area's nascency. This paper establishes a structured understanding of prompts, by assembling a taxonomy of prompting techniques and analyzing their use. We present a comprehensive vocabulary of 33 vocabulary terms, a taxonomy of 58 text-only prompting techniques, and 40 techniques for other modalities. We further present a meta-analysis of the entire literature on natural language prefix-prompting.

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