Prompt engineering basics

There's a lot of people I run into that don't understand how to use an LLM effectively and don't know prompt engineering basics. Either they are too intimidated to use it or feed it prompts like "Tell me the news related to xyz," which is too vague, or they think that they have to write a full paper every time they're authoring a prompt, which is not the case. Prompt engineering is not as hard as…