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AI Fluency Week: Introduction to Prompt Engineering
Learn to harness the full potential of AI language models through effective prompt design. This hands-on workshop covers essential techniques for crafting clear, specific prompts that generate reliable and useful outputs. You'll explore strategies like chain-of-thought reasoning, few-shot examples, and structured formatting to improve your AI interactions. Whether you're a researcher, developer, or curious beginner, you'll leave with practical skills to communicate more effectively with AI systems and integrate them confidently into your workflow.
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This session is part of AI Fluency Week. Join us for another session!
Preparing to (Vibe) Code
Text mining the scholarly literature
Built-In or Banned? CMU Faculty on AI in the Classroom
The Impact of AI in the Research Process
Using AI-supported tools for literature searching
Related LibGuide: Best Practices for Large Language Models by Alfredo Gonzalez-Espinoza
- Date:
- Friday, October 30, 2026
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Sorrells Library, Den
- Campus:
- Sorrells Library
- Categories:
- Artificial Intelligence
In-Person Workshop Information:
Directions for getting to the Den of Sorrells Library:
Sorrells Library is on the 4th Floor of Wean Hall, shown on the map here. If you enter in the front of Wean Hall, take the elevator down one floor. When you exit the elevator, the library will be on your left. The Den is in the back of the library.
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