Many of the ChatGPT-like Generative AI services are based on General Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) Large Language Models (LLM) whose main interaction method is prompting.
There are many websites dedicated to “prompt engineering” and some contain helpful taxonomies.
To get started, you may seek inspiration from the so-called prompt engineering guide (external link) to learn about the differences between zero-vs few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought prompting etc.