How To Do Things With Prompts

arXiv:2609.29657 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-29

Updated: 2026-08-29

Code: https://github.com/ksekrst/how-to-do-things-with-prompts

Terminology

• Prompt Engineering — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Pragmatics — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Affordance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Perplexity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• ShareChat: A Dataset of Chatbot Conversations in the Wild
• Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance

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