Mastering GPT-4.1: Prompting Techniques from the OpenAI Cookbook

🎙️ Want better results from GPT-4.1? It starts with better prompts. In this episode of AI Deep Dive, we explore key insights from the OpenAI Cookbook’s official GPT-4.1 Prompting Guide, which offers practical techniques to help users unlock the full capabilities of OpenAI’s latest model.

From agentic workflows with system prompt reminders to chain-of-thought planning, this guide covers how to design prompts that are clear, specific, and optimized for GPT-4.1’s more literal and structured interpretation of instructions.

We also look at how to structure prompts effectively, make use of long context windows, apply delimiters for input formatting, and handle common failure modes. Whether you're building tools via the API, generating customer service responses, or coding file diffs, this guide helps you do it with more control and clarity.

• Prompt structure and formatting tips for GPT-4.1
• Using system messages and reminders for agent-style tasks
• Examples of effective prompts for developers and support teams
• Leveraging planning, reasoning, and tool usage through prompting
• Common mistakes to avoid and how to debug prompt behavior

🎧 Tune in to learn how to prompt GPT-4.1 like a pro—straight from OpenAI’s own Cookbook.

Source:
https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt4-1_prompting_guide