The role of a prompt engineer was unheard of a few years ago. Now, however, these engineers appear to be much sought after for their ability to polish the prompts that are fed into a generative-AI language model or LLM and help pull out information for the users or clients. In simple words, their prompts help to ensure the best output from the AI black boxes of today.
If one looks up Wikipedia, the definition of prompt engineering is as follows: “Prompt engineering is the process of structuring text that can be interpreted and understood by a generative AI model. A prompt is natural language text describing the task that an AI should perform.”
What is more interesting is that prompt engineers can earn in the range of $1,00,000 to $2,00,000.
So, how exactly do prompt engineers work? They may tell the AI system to assume certain roles so that they can answer specific technical questions associated with that role. They can feed in new information that was missing from the LLM so that the responses are more specific and suitable to the questions asked by the users or customers. They help extract more refined responses from the LLM by suggesting better-framed questions.
However, knowledge of coding may be a requirement in prompt engineers as they are also required to create prompts as inputs for the system so that the robot is able to give just the right answers to its customers.
