{"product_id":"prompt-engineering-ravindra-kumar-nayak-9798194374762","title":"Prompt Engineering: Designing Better Instructions","description":"You ask an AI tool for something simple. The answer arrives polished, confident-and somehow still misses the point. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe problem is often not the model. It is the instruction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrompt Engineering: Designing Better Instructions is a practical, first-principles guide for readers who want better results from generative AI without becoming programmers, memorizing formulas, or collecting endless prompt templates. It begins with an ordinary question: what has to be clear before another intelligence-human or machine-can do useful work? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom there, the book builds one layer at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou will learn how to define the outcome before polishing the wording; give only the context that changes the answer; use constraints without making the task brittle; choose examples that teach the intended pattern; separate source material from instructions; design outputs that are easier to use and review; and improve prompts by diagnosing what actually went wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the book deepens, the focus moves beyond \"write a better prompt.\" You will learn to handle ambiguity, competing instructions, missing information, uncertainty, edge cases, verification, versioning, human review, cost, reuse, and changing real-world conditions. You will see why discovery work should not be prompted like decision work, why a transformation task must protect what cannot change, why creative work needs productive freedom, and why sensitive work needs stronger boundaries and clearer review. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe mathematics is deliberately gentle. Numbers appear only when they make a hidden trade-off easier to see-quality versus speed, priority weights, review cost, or the value of one more question. No advanced mathematics is assumed, and every numerical idea is introduced through ordinary reasoning first. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is also a book designed to be used, not merely finished. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDialogues turn abstract concepts into recognizable situations. Exercises invite you to redesign real instructions. Visual learning pages make the architecture easier to remember. The Value Edition at the end turns the book into active training through reconstruction, chunking, prompt diagnosis, brainstorming, simple scoring, a capstone problem, and a seven-day practice path. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost importantly, the book does not teach prompting as a bag of magic phrases. Tools change. Interfaces change. Models change. The more durable skill is learning to see the work before you type: the outcome, the evidence, the boundaries, the acceptable freedom, the shape of the result, the likely failure, and the moment when human judgment should take over. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is for you if you are a student, professional, creator, manager, educator, entrepreneur, researcher, or curious beginner who uses generative AI and wants to communicate with it more deliberately. You do not need coding experience. You do not need technical confidence before you begin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou need a willingness to ask a better first question: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does this work actually need? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy the final pages, the goal is not to leave you with a folder of copied prompts. It is to leave you with a mind that can design the next instruction from first principles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ravindra Kumar Nayak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798194374762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"Ravindra Kumar Nayak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174565257471,"sku":"9798194374762","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prompt-engineering-ravindra-kumar-nayak-9798194374762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}