What is learn_prompting?

Learn Prompting is a free educational resource that teaches people how to communicate effectively with AI tools like ChatGPT. The repository holds the source files for the website at learnprompting.org, which includes written guides, structured courses, and workshops aimed at anyone who wants to get better results from generative AI systems. The main offering is a free prompt engineering guide that has been cited by OpenAI and Google. Prompt engineering refers to the skill of writing instructions or questions that get AI models to produce more accurate, useful, or specific outputs. The guide covers techniques ranging from basic to advanced, and is meant to be accessible even to people without a technical background. Beyond the free guide, the team behind the site has published 15 paid and free courses on generative AI topics, run workshops at companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Deloitte, and organized a competition called HackAPrompt, described as the largest AI red-teaming event held so far. Red teaming in this context means trying to find ways to get AI systems to behave unexpectedly or produce harmful outputs, which helps researchers understand their weaknesses. The team has also published a research paper surveying prompting techniques across the field. The GitHub repository itself is the content source for the website, written in MDX, a format that mixes Markdown text with interactive components. Contributors can suggest new content, fix mistakes, translate materials into other languages, or submit artwork. Running the site locally for development requires Node.js and a few standard setup steps described in the README. The project was started in 2022 and has grown through community contributions.