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Feedback for “Prompt Engineering Guide”: a technique not listed & which name would conflict with "meta-prompting"
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Hello,
There's a prompting technique, that a colleague of mine uses a lot, and that I have found on this very nice tutorial on how to use Generative AI to write a cover letter :
https://d2xe0iugdha6pz.cloudfront.net/editor-uploads/2025/3/7/how-to-write-a-cl-using-chatgpt-in-7-steps-1-1024x1131.png
It mostly consists in *asking the GenAI to write the prompt itself*.
I would have (naturally) called this technique "meta prompting", but apparently the term is already used for something completely different on your website.
So my remarks:
- Could you add this technique (or tell me where it is if I missed it)
- Could you find a good name for it or swap it with your current "meta-prompting" one (which I don't understand what "meta" aspect it has ... for me it seems to be just output formatting tricks)...
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Start by reviewing the existing meta-prompting entry in the Prompt Engineering Guide and the linked cover-letter tutorial. Done means the requested technique is either located or added, and its relationship and naming are clearly resolved without leaving the terminology conflict ambiguous.
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- Domain
- ai, documentation
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- Documentation
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