Introduction to Prompting › Building Toward Your Personal Assistant

Remember the personal assistant we're building throughout this book? Every capability it will eventually have (understanding your requests, using tools, remembering context, making plans) starts with good prompting. The techniques you learn here will be the foundation for everything that comes later.

Right now, we're focused on the basics: how to communicate clearly with a language model. In later chapters, you'll learn how to prompt for reasoning, how to structure prompts for tool use, and how to design prompts that help your agent maintain context over long conversations. But it all starts here, with the fundamentals of clear communication.