20 approaches to writing better AI prompts

If AIs are supposed to be such magical time savers, why do we spend so much time and effort writing prompts? In some cases, the prompts can be longer than the answer! But while there is some academic value to such philosophical navel gazing about the nature of prompting, the reality is that the most focused teams are devoting plenty of effort to creating just the right set of words to set the large language model (LLM) in motion.