title: The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques
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  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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paper_title: The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques
paper_summary: 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.
paper_ai_summary: A taxonomy and meta-analysis are provided for prompting techniques and vocabulary in GenAI systems, with a focus on natural language prefix-prompting.
paper_ai_keywords: natural language prefix-prompting