Mastering Prompt Engineering: A Guide to Crafting Effective Prompts

Bys: Ramakrishnan, Akshay Bhuvaneswari, Padmakumari, P., Manikandan, R.

This book explains the principles, structure, and real-world practice of prompt engineering in a way that anyone working with large language models can understand and apply. Rather than treating prompting as a collection of hacks, it walks the reader through how to think about role, context, task, constraints, and examples so that LLMs produce reliable, domain-appropriate outputs. Starting from the basics of "what is a prompt," the book then connects prompting to how generative AI models actually work, introduces core and advanced prompting patterns (prompt chaining, dynamic templates, tool-augmented prompting), and shows how to evaluate and refine model responses.

Designed for students, educators, and practitioners, each chapter includes learning objectives and hands-on exercises that can be tried directly in tools like ChatGPT. Later chapters move from theory to application, demonstrating how to build LLM-powered chatbots and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and how to incorporate ethics, safety, and bias awareness into prompt design. By the end, readers will have a reusable toolkit for crafting effective prompts across education, research, business, and technical use cases.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8743813666
• ISBN13: 9788743813668
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: River Publishers
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"