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The duties of a prompt engineer include designing prompts to make large language models like ChatGPT complete tasks reliably.
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SINGAPORE – The rise of chatbots and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools has increased the demand for people with natural language skills, and not just mathematics and coding.
These skills fall under a nascent field of software development called prompt engineering – the ability to direct generative AI apps like ChatGPT or image generator Midjourney to perform specific tasks using English and other human languages.