Prompt engineering

The practice of writing and refining prompts so a model gives more reliable, useful answers. It covers giving clear instructions, supplying the right context, showing examples, and asking for a specific format. For a clinical or decision-making audience the point is not that this is a special skill, but that the quality of an AI tool in real use depends partly on how the prompts behind it are built, and that a vendor demo with carefully engineered prompts may not reflect what a busy user types at 2am.

Terms like this come up in real clinical scenarios across the HelloAI courses: bite-sized modules with verifiable certificates. An account takes one minute, no password needed.