Meta-Prompting

Sections: What & Why • Techniques • Benefits • When to Use • Effectiveness • Example Snippet • Simple Explanation

What & Why Prompts that instruct the model on how to construct or refine its own prompts—“teach me to prompt.”

Techniques

• Self-critique loops
• Prompt templates
• Iterative refinement

Benefits

• Faster iteration
• Improved prompt quality
• Scales across tasks

When to Use

• Crafting and refining prompt templates
• Onboarding new team members to prompting

Effectiveness

• Speeds up prompt iteration
• Improves prompt consistency across users

Example Snippet

"Create a template for product descriptions that includes features, benefits, and tone guidelines."

Simple Explanation

Meta-prompting is asking the model to help you build or improve your own prompts.