Advanced Course: Advanced Prompting

Welcome to the advanced prompting course – for those who already know the basics and want to understand why some prompts outperform others and how to build control that holds up in production.

The difference between prompting and mastering prompt engineering

You can already write a prompt that works. The next level is about deliberately curating what the model sees, in what format, and how to minimize common pitfalls (noise, hallucinations, misinterpretation).

What this course gives you

• Context engineering – the right information at the right time, without swamping the model in noise.
• Advanced role-setting – role plus behavior, uncertainty, and format.
• Structural precision – Markdown, XML-style delimiters, hierarchy.
• Reasoning – chain-of-thought, few-shot, and related techniques.
• RAG and data quality – chunks, sources, contradictions, and meta-prompting.

Who is this course for?

For you who build assistants in Intric and want to improve quality, reproducibility, and understanding of why failures occur.

We recommend How Does AI Work? and Prompting Course: Basics first.

You need access to a tool. Each section ends with a hands-on exercise (🖊 Try it yourself) where you write a prompt and test it. You do them in Intric, but any AI chat works. If you don’t have access yet, write the drafts now and test them when you do.

Course outline

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