Best practices on engineering a good prompt.

Prompt Writing for Text-Based Tools

  • Begin your prompt with clear instruction or question
    • Be specific – “write a story” will provide a generic output, think about descriptors that you wish your story to follow. What is the genre, who is the audience, how long do you want your story to be?  
  • Specify the desired output. 
    • Clearly define what type of final format or product you want to generate. Are you looking for an outline, a paragraph, an essay?  
    • Explore word count parameters. 
  • Clarify role, tone, and audience. 
    • A really great way to do this is exploring who your audience is.  
    • Use the “act as if…” to help clarify your audience.  
  • Correct and give feedback. 
    • Adjust your prompt a few times to see how the instructions impact the output. 
    • Make your feedback clear and concise as you hone your results.  
    • Tell it what parts were useful and what parts need to be improved. 
    • If you see any mistakes in the output, note this in your response so that the AI can correct mistakes.  
    • Highlight to the AI what worked well.

Ways to Experiment

Imagining

  • Brainstorm
  • Summarize and synthesize complex information.
  • Analyze complex information.

Tedious Tasks

  • Communication planning and drafting.
  • Draft administrative documents.
  • Review and/or proofread materials.
  • Translate materials.

Creativity

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Iterating and Moving Ideas Forward

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