You already know three prompt tricks. Today you'll add two more and turn them into a recipe you can use for almost anything.
About 40 minutes. You can stop and come back. Your answers are saved in this browser.
In Byte's AI Lab you learned three ways to make a prompt better. Let's see if they're still in your head. Three quick questions!
Think about making pancakes. If you forget the eggs, you get something flat and strange. If you forget the sugar, they're boring. Every ingredient changes the result.
Prompts work the same way. Each piece you add changes the answer you get back. A prompt recipe has five ingredients. You know three of them already. Two are new.
What the answer is for. What do you want to do with it?
Exactly what you're asking about, and how many.
Useful background, like how old you are or what you already know.
The shape and size of the answer: a list, steps, 3 sentences.
What to leave out, or rules the answer must stay inside.
Here's a way to remember the order: Great Sandwiches Can Fill Lunchboxes. Goal, Specific, Context, Format, Limits!
Here are four prompts before and after. The dashed lines show each ingredient that was added.
The first prompt could get a whole encyclopedia page. The second gets 4 clear steps written for you.
"Game ideas" could mean video games, board games or sports. The recipe tells the AI exactly what kind of game will actually work.
Now the AI knows what you like, what you don't like and how much to write. Remember to check the books are real before you look for them. AI sometimes invents titles!
50 words can't fit 10 chapters and lots of detail. When rules fight each other, the AI has to break some of them. Pick the limits that matter most to you.
You don't need all five ingredients every time. A quick question might need only one or two. Bigger jobs need more. And for Context, share things like your age or what you enjoy. Never share your full name, your school, where you live or any passwords.
These prompts are sick! Each one got a disappointing answer. Read the prompt and what went wrong, then choose the missing ingredient that would fix it.
What went wrong:
Now you're the chef. Pick a job, then fill in the ingredients. Your prompt builds itself underneath. Try to use at least 3 ingredients, then compare with Byte's version.
Your ingredients are saved right in this browser, on this device. They're never sent anywhere.
Time to use your own chatbot. Missions get harder as you go. Bronze is the one to do today. Silver and Gold are extra challenges for when you want more.
Ask about the same thing three times, adding more ingredients each time. Pick any animal you like.
Plan a day out: the beach, a park, a museum, or anywhere you like. Write a prompt that gets you a packing checklist.
Choose something you've always wondered about. Why is the sky blue? How do planes stay up? How does a phone know where it is?
Your notes are saved right in this browser, on this device. They're never sent anywhere.
Your Prompt Playbook is your own collection of prompts that really work. You'll add one page in every Prompt Pro lesson. At the end, you can print it and keep it next to your computer.
Your Playbook is saved right in this browser, on this device. It's never sent anywhere.
10 questions, picked at random from a bigger question bank. If you take it again, you'll probably see a different mix. Let's go!
Learn one of the strongest prompt tricks there is: giving the AI an example.