Building prompts for sequential chains

Over the next couple of exercises, you'll work to create a system for helping people learn new skills. This system needs to be built sequentially, so learners can modify plans based on their preferences and constraints. You'll utilize your LangChain LCEL skills to build a sequential chain to build this system, and the first step is to design the prompt templates that will be used by this system.

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Developing LLM Applications with LangChain

Exercise instructions

Create a prompt template called learning_prompt that takes an input "activity" and creates a learning plan.
Create a prompt template called time_prompt that takes an input "learning_plan" and modifies it to fit within one week.
Invoke the learning_prompt with an activity of your choice (try "play golf" if you're struggling for ideas).

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create a prompt template that takes an input activity
learning_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["____"],
    template="I want to learn how to {activity}. Can you suggest how I can learn this step-by-step?"
)

# Create a prompt template that places a time constraint on the output
time_prompt = PromptTemplate(
    ____,
    template="I only have one week. Can you create a plan to help me hit this goal: {learning_plan}."
)

# Invoke the learning_prompt with an activity
print(learning_prompt.____({"activity": "____"}))

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Developing LLM Applications with LangChain

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Welcome to the LangChain framework for building applications on LLMs! You'll learn about the main components of LangChain, including models, chains, agents, prompts, and parsers. You'll create chatbots using both open-source models from Hugging Face and proprietary models from OpenAI, create prompt templates, and integrate different chatbot memory strategies to manage context and resources during conversations.

Exercise 1: The LangChain ecosystem Exercise 2: OpenAI models in LangChain!Exercise 3: Hugging Face models in LangChain!Exercise 4: Prompt templates Exercise 5: Prompt templates and chaining Exercise 6: Chat prompt templates Exercise 7: Few-shot prompting Exercise 8: Creating the few-shot example set Exercise 9: Building the few-shot prompt template Exercise 10: Implementing few-shot prompting

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Exercise 1: Sequential chains Exercise 2: Building prompts for sequential chains

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Exercise 1: Integrating document loaders Exercise 2: PDF document loaders Exercise 3: CSV document loaders Exercise 4: HTML document loaders Exercise 5: Splitting external data for retrieval Exercise 6: Splitting by character Exercise 7: Recursively splitting by character Exercise 8: Splitting HTML Exercise 9: RAG storage and retrieval using vector databases Exercise 10: Preparing the documents and vector database Exercise 11: Building a retrieval prompt template Exercise 12: Creating a RAG chain Exercise 13: Wrap-up!