# M6 LLMs and Prompt Engineering
# LLM Settings
Read / Watch: LLM Settings | Prompt Engineering Guide.
- Understanding these settings will be important to getting the level of consistency and variability you want out of your LLMs.
# Prompting Techniques
Review at least the following techniques from the Prompt Engineering Guide. This site is a great reference for working with LLMs.
- Read / Watch: Zero-Shot Prompting | Prompt Engineering Guide
- Read / Watch: Few-Shot Prompting | Prompt Engineering Guide
- Read / Watch: Chain-of-Thought Prompting | Prompt Engineering Guide
- Read / Watch: Prompt Chaining | Prompt Engineering Guide
- Understanding at least these approaches is necessary for effective application prompting.
Read: RISEN: 5 Steps to Build Context-Rich AI Prompts | ClickUp
- One of the most effective frameworks for getting LLMs to behave.
Read: Chat Templates
- Chat templates are extremely common most applications make use of them. Only the introduction is required reading.