How to Prompt Engineer Phi-3-mini: A Practical Guide

In this article, we’ll walk through how to do it in Python, using the Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct model by Microsoft. We’ll use the Huggingface inference API for this, so you won’t have to download a 7GB model locally.

Prompts are basically our requests or inputs to AI models. Prompt engineering, as the name suggests, is about going a little deeper than basic prompts by creating specialized inputs that (more) effectively guide AI models to produce near-perfect outputs.

You don’t necessarily have to use a programming language or an IDE for this, as most people suggest you can just use ChatGPT’s front end. That’s technically accurate, but that doesn’t exactly give you the actual “fun“ of prompt engineering a model as using a programming language, not to mention that it’s not as effective as well.

In this article, we ...