
Advanced LLM Prompting Techniques for Actuaries
A Talk by Colin Priest BEc MAppStats FIAA CERA (Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales)
About this Talk
Unlock the true potential of AI in actuarial practice with this seminar on Advanced Prompt Engineering for Actuaries. Discover five powerful prompting techniques—meta prompting, few-shot, chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought, and role-play—to enhance accuracy, reliability, and creativity. Learn to structure effective prompts, reduce hallucinations, and ensure robust, domain-specific AI outputs. Whether beginner or advanced, gain practical skills and intuitive frameworks to improve your communication, ideation, and problem-solving as an actuary in the AI era.