Prompting techniques
Prompt-engineering techniques, demystified
Every prompt on Paraprompt is tagged with the technique it uses. Read the guide, see the examples, then go find prompts in the registry that use it.
Basic
Basic / Zero-Shot Prompting
The simplest, most direct form of prompting — just ask the model what you want.
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Few-Shot
Few-Shot Prompting
Show the model a handful of input/output pairs and it will mimic the pattern.
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Chain-of-Thought
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting
Unlock multi-step reasoning by asking the model to think before it answers.
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Tree-of-Thought
Tree-of-Thought (ToT) Prompting
When one chain isn't enough — search across many possible reasoning paths.
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RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Ground the model in your own data — docs, tickets, code, anything searchable.
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