Episode 20

Intern Rebecca Gomes's Prompt Engineering Primer

In this episode of AI for the Humanities, host Meghan McInnis-Domínguez, Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware, welcomes her intern, Rebecca Gómes—an International Relations and Spanish Studies Major—to discuss the art of crafting effective prompts for Large Language Models. Rebecca provides practical tips on clarity, specificity, contextualization, and advanced prompt engineering techniques such as few-shot prompting and chain-of-thought prompting. The segment emphasizes how better prompts lead to more accurate and useful AI-generated responses.