🎯 11 secrets prompt techniques I use


Hi Reader,

Everybody is telling you that prompt engineering is a new skill to acquire, but nobody is showing you how.

This week, we are going to change that.

Imagine asking ChatGPT the right questions and getting instant, spot-on insights.

It's really important to learn how to craft your prompts so precisely that you unlock deeper insights and more accurate answers; but you need to have the right guidance.

That’s where prompt engineering comes in.

Prompt engineering is like financial modeling. It is a skill set you need to have as a finance professional to stay ahead of the AI curve.

In this edition, I will show you the prompt engineering techniques and how you can learn them in just 1 hour.

Nicolas

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Become A Prompt Engineering Expert

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Using AI and ChatGPT without any technique or strategy is not enough.

Why?

Because you will receive an unsatisfying output and likely give up, thinking that it is not useful and that you are just wasting your time.

But what if I tell you that if you master the top prompt engineering techniques, you will optimize your work and increase your productivity by 10x?

To help you become a master prompt engineer, I've developed the first course to upskill Finance Professionals in Prompt Engineering.

Prompt Engineering is the number one skill in demand by companies.

Here are the techniques covered in the course:

  • Basic prompting
  • Chain-Of-Thought
  • Chunking
  • Explicit Reasoning
  • Agent Prompting
  • Team Prompting
  • Meta-Cognition
  • Socratic Prompting
  • Prompt Optimization & Expansion
  • Fact-Checking
  • Iterative Inquiry & Sequential Questioning

Only for you, I've unlocked one of the lessons covered in the course.

Below you will find the free video lesson on the Chain-of-Thought prompt engineering technique.

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Learn The Secrets to Expert Prompting

Learning the prompt engineering techniques is important for your career growth.

Here are my top proven techniques that will make you indispensable in your company:

#1: Basic Prompting

In this technique, I will teach you how to combine my CSI+FBI framework to get a detailed and specific output.

It will bring consistent results that provide you with value.

  • CSI stands for Context / Specific / Instruction
  • FBI for Format / Blueprint / Identity

CSI+FBI is the secret framework I teach in my courses and corporate workshops.

Here is how you can write an overdue letter to a client using this framework.

Prompt example:

Context: I am an accountant
Specific: my client has an overdue since 2 months
Instructions: can you draft a communication to him?

The communication needs to be a formal letter.
I want the communication to be hard and use words like legal actions.
Draft this email like you would be the best lawyer."

Result:

#2: Chain-of-Thought

The Chain of Thought principle in prompt engineering involves breaking down a complex query into a series of simpler, logical steps.

This technique works by guiding your AI Chatbot through a thought process that mimics human reasoning.

Instead of directly answering a complex question, your AI assistant (like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Claude) first addresses smaller, more manageable components of the question, eventually leading to the final answer.

This method is effective, especially in complex domains like finance, because it allows for a more nuanced and detailed exploration of the problem.

By dissecting a query into stages, your AI chatbot can demonstrate its reasoning at each step, making it easier to understand how it arrived at the final conclusion.

Learn how to use Chain-of-Thought in the exclusive free video lesson from my course (click on the link and then scroll through the article).

On top of these techniques, you will also learn about:

  • Chunking
  • Explicit Reasoning
  • Agent Prompting
  • Team Prompting
  • Meta-Cognition
  • Socratic Prompting
  • Prompt Optimization & Expansion
  • Fact-Checking
  • Iterative Inquiry & Sequential Questioning

What is your experience of using different prompts for finance?

Let me know!

I hope you enjoyed this email.

Looking forward to reading your questions and responses!

Nicolas

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