Instruction: Explain what prompt engineering is and why it is crucial for effectively leveraging LLMs.
Context: This question evaluates the candidate's familiarity with the strategies for eliciting desired outputs from LLMs through carefully crafted input prompts.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Prompt engineering is the practice of shaping the model's behavior through better task instructions, context, examples, and output constraints. With LLMs, the prompt is often the fastest way to change...