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Prompt engineering is a relatively new discipline that gained popularity in the early 2020s as researchers and practitioners sought to optimize the performance of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and GPT-4.

Introduction

Welcome to the product section of our knowledge base! This section is aimed at users of our platform and is designed to provide you with an in-depth understanding of each of our products.

Apart from the tools you can steer with your written input, you can use a few other functionalities to work in the chat. These are the model selector in the top left corner and the buttons to interact with prompts and responses.

Basic Chat functionalities

The chat allows you to send prompts to different AI models and receive a response based on your question. You can use various tools to work with documents, search the web, or perform other operations in the chat. These tools are different capabilities the models have. Describe what you want to do, and the model will choose the right tool automatically based on your request.

Model without tools

Document Search

Web Search

Image Analysis

Image Generation

Data Analysis

If you developed a good prompt and want to reuse it in the future, there is a prompt library to store it. You can edit it, share it with others, and use it easily in a chat or with an assistant. Prompts in the prompt library are always stored within folders. You can keep your folders private or share your folders with other users in the workspace.

Prompt Library

Assistants are chatbots you can set up for a specific use case or to work with a specific document. It works similarly to the chat, with the difference that you save documents and instructions to refer to the assistant without setting the chat up again.

Introduction to Assistants

There are different tools you can ue to configure the assistant and tailor it to your specific use case.

Assistant Configuration

Creates a model response for the given chat conversation using an OpenAI model.

OpenAI Chat completion

Creates a model response given a structured list of input messages using the Anthropic API.

Anthropic Messages

Langdock Search is a functionality that allows users to search files, pages, and content across all connected tools.

Introduction to Search

The Account Settings include all preferences and adjustments for a specific user. They only apply to this specific user and no one else. The account settings can be set by any user.

Account Settings

The workspace settings apply to multiple users, usually the entire workspace. This is only accessible for admins (except groups if the admins allow individual users to create groups).

Workspace Settings

Enable your users to sign in into Langdock using their Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) accounts via SAML.

Microsoft Entra ID

Enable your users to sign in into Langdock using their Google accounts via SAML.

Google SAML

This page is under constructions. Stay tuned!

SCIM

Learn how to use Integrations in the chat and in assistants.

How to use Integrations

Langdock supports personal integrations and workspace integrations.  Both provide similar functionality to the Langdock user, but they differ in capability and setup complexity. In the following, we will provide guidance on when to use which integration type.

Personal vs. Workspace Integrations

Connect Integrations for one individual user only.

Personal Integrations (OAuth2)

Connect Google Drive for every user in your workspace.

Google Drive

Connect Confluence for every user in your workspace.

Confluence

Install the Langdock App in Slack and use your models and Assistants directly in Slack

Slack Bot

By default, users use API keys from Langdock. You can optionally use your own API keys instead.

Bring your own Keys

Langdock has limits of prompts per user per time frame to ensure that all users can use all models at any time.

Fair Usage Policy

This is a short step by step guide how to set up Gemini models through Google Vertex.

Gemini Setup

Below are all relevant links for legal and compliance teams, espcially links for security and privacy questions.

Useful Links

Pricing

Our invoices are created automatically in Stripe, our billing portal. In the beginning of the month, you will receive an invoice with the number of seats for the upcoming month. This calculation is corrected in the following invoice if you added or removed members in your Langdock workspace.

Invoices

This is a basic guide to understand the fundamentals of how AI models work. It lays the foundation for deeper concepts explained in this guide.

Basics of AI models

Prompt elements are components used to craft effective prompts for interactions with LLMs. These elements help structure the prompt to ensure the LLM provides useful, relevant, and personalized responses. You don’t need to use all five elements every time, but using a few will help.

Basics: Prompt Elements

Discover some valuable insights we have gathered over time and are excited to share with you. Dive in to discover how to craft clear, effective prompts and avoid common pitfalls, ensuring you get the best possible responses every time.

Advanced: Tips & Tricks

1) Clear and Specific Instructions

2) Structure Your Prompt

3) Control Output Format

4) Chain Prompts

5) Context Window Tricks

6) Give the LLM a Role

Zero-shot Prompting

Few-shot Prompting

Chain-of-Thought Prompting

If you want to deepen your understanding further, we have collected some additional resources for you.

Further Resources

One of our core-values is to build a tool which is model-agnostic. That means, that we do not want to trap the user in one model, but give the choice which model to use. Each model has different strengths and we encourage you to test the different models to find the best models for your specific need.

Model Guide

Provide custom instructions to improve responses.

Custom instructions

This guide shows you how to build an assistant. We will use an example of a job description assistant, but the steps and considerations can be used with any use case.

Creating an Assistant

This assistant helps you to build other assistants for specific use cases. You can use the configuration below and paste it in an assistant in your workspace.

Assistant Configurator Template

We have collected a list of assistants and use cases to inspire you how to utilize Langdock for your specific needs. Let us know if you need more details or have additional requests.

Introduction

Welcome to Langdock’s Prompt Engineering Guide!

What kind of Prompt Engineer are you?

Elements of a Prompt

Basics of Prompting

Techniques

Tips & Tricks

Further Ressources

Dictionary

​Welcome to Langdock’s Prompt Engineering Guide!

What kind of Prompt Engineer are you?

Elements of a Prompt

Basics of Prompting

Techniques

Tips & Tricks

Further Ressources

Dictionary

Welcome to Langdock’s Prompt Engineering Guide!