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Prompt Engineering and RAG Basics

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You're discussing how to improve an LLM-powered question answering feature. Some answers are strong when the prompt is clear, but the model still struggles when it needs facts that are not in its training data.

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Explain the concepts of prompt engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). How do they differ, and when would you use each to improve answer quality?