The practice of crafting input text (prompts) to guide LLM behavior and output quality. Techniques include: zero-shot (direct instruction), few-shot (providing examples), chain-of-thought (step-by-step reasoning), system prompts (setting context/persona), and structured output formatting. Effective prompts are specific, provide context, and include constraints. Critical for AI-assisted blockchain development.
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The practice of crafting input text (prompts) to guide LLM behavior and output quality. Techniques include: zero-shot (direct instruction), few-shot (providing examples), chain-of-thought (step-by-step reasoning), system prompts (setting context/persona), and structured output formatting. Effective prompts are specific, provide context, and include constraints. Critical for AI-assisted blockchain development.
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Prompt Engineering (prompt-engineering) Category: AI / ML Definition: The practice of crafting input text (prompts) to guide LLM behavior and output quality. Techniques include: zero-shot (direct instruction), few-shot (providing examples), chain-of-thought (step-by-step reasoning), system prompts (setting context/persona), and structured output formatting. Effective prompts are specific, provide context, and include constraints. Critical for AI-assisted blockchain development. Related: LLM (Large Language Model), Context Window
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A neural network trained on vast text corpora to understand and generate human language. LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Gemini) use transformer architectures with billions of parameters. They power chatbots, code generation, summarization, and reasoning tasks. In blockchain development, LLMs assist with smart contract writing, audit review, documentation, and code explanation.
The maximum amount of text (measured in tokens) an LLM can process in a single interaction. Larger windows enable processing more code/documentation at once. Sizes vary: GPT-4 (128K tokens), Claude (200K tokens), Gemini (1M+ tokens). One token ≈ 4 characters in English. Context window limits affect how much codebase an AI can analyze in a single request.
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A persistent, developer-controlled instruction set provided to an LLM that defines its role, behavior, tone, constraints, and capabilities for a given application. Unlike user prompts that change per interaction, the system prompt remains constant and is sent via a separate 'system' role parameter in the API. System prompts establish application-wide behavior including brand voice, output formatting, safety constraints, and tool-use rules.
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A neural network trained on vast text corpora to understand and generate human language. LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Gemini) use transformer architectures with billions of parameters. They power chatbots, code generation, summarization, and reasoning tasks. In blockchain development, LLMs assist with smart contract writing, audit review, documentation, and code explanation.
The maximum amount of text (measured in tokens) an LLM can process in a single interaction. Larger windows enable processing more code/documentation at once. Sizes vary: GPT-4 (128K tokens), Claude (200K tokens), Gemini (1M+ tokens). One token ≈ 4 characters in English. Context window limits affect how much codebase an AI can analyze in a single request.
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A neural network trained on vast text corpora to understand and generate human language. LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Gemini) use transformer architectures with billions of parameters. They power chatbots, code generation, summarization, and reasoning tasks. In blockchain development, LLMs assist with smart contract writing, audit review, documentation, and code explanation.
The neural network architecture underlying modern LLMs, introduced in 'Attention Is All You Need' (2017). Transformers use self-attention mechanisms to process input sequences in parallel (unlike recurrent networks). Key components: multi-head attention, positional encoding, feedforward layers, and layer normalization. Variants include encoder-only (BERT), decoder-only (GPT), and encoder-decoder (T5).
A neural network component that allows models to weigh the relevance of different parts of the input when producing output. Self-attention computes query-key-value dot products across all positions, enabling each token to 'attend' to every other token. Multi-head attention runs multiple attention functions in parallel. Attention is O(n²) in sequence length, driving context window research.
A large AI model trained on broad data that can be adapted for many downstream tasks. Foundation models (GPT-4, Claude, Llama 3, Gemini) are pre-trained on internet-scale text/code and can be fine-tuned, prompted, or used via APIs for specific applications. The term emphasizes that one base model serves as the foundation for diverse use cases rather than training task-specific models.