Prompt Engineering Approaches and System Prompts

Prompt Frameworks

Mick McQuaid
mcq@utexas.edu

University of Texas at Austin

12 Mar 2025

Week Eight

Agenda

  • Presentations: Kylie, Harold, Tianhao
  • News
  • Review whatialreadyknow (Ishwari)
  • Prompt frameworks
  • Colab (TACC notebooks)
  • Work time

Presentations

News

The Batch

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WhatIAlreadyKnow (Ishwari)

Prompt Frameworks, Liu et al. (2023)

Prompt Framework Nutshell

Prompt Framework Nutshell

Background

  • Limitations:
    • Temporal lag
    • Lack of capabilities to perform external actions
  • Response: variety of prompting tools
  • Motivates a survey and classification of tools
  • Concept of prompt framework: managing, facilitating, and simplifying interaction with LLMs
  • Prompt frameworks operate on different levels: data, base, execute, and service
  • Prompt frameworks consist of core components and extend components

Prompt Framework Workflow