Sometimes the fastest way to explain what you want is to show it. Today you'll learn how to give the AI an example to copy.
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Last time you learned the five ingredients of a prompt recipe. Three quick questions to warm up!
Imagine teaching a friend a new secret handshake. You could describe it in words: "first a high five, then a fist bump, then wiggle your fingers." Or you could just show them. Showing is faster, and they'll get it right.
AI works the same way. Remember Training Camp in Byte's AI Lab? AI learns by spotting patterns in examples. When you put an example inside your prompt, you're giving the AI a tiny training lesson. It looks at your example and copies the pattern.
The magic sentence is: "Here's an example. Make more like it." That's called using a template: one example that the AI uses as a pattern.
The AI might write long, complicated riddles, or riddles with no answers.
Now the AI knows the length, the style and that every riddle needs an answer.
Every card comes back in exactly the same layout. That's the pattern being copied.
Without the example, the AI might give questions with no choices, or hide all the answers at the end. With it, you get exactly the layout you want.
The AI copied the shouting! It copies everything in your example: the good parts and the messy parts. If your example has a mistake, the AI may copy the mistake too.
Two tips from me. First, say what to copy and what to change: "Copy the layout, but use different animals." Second, if you give two examples, make them a bit different. That shows the AI which parts are allowed to change.
Each answer below came from a prompt with an example in it. Look closely at the pattern, then pick the example that was used.
Let's make a flashcard set. You write one example card. Then the prompt asks the AI to make more just like it. Fill in at least 3 boxes, then compare with Byte's version.
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Find out how much difference one example makes.
Use your Pattern Maker prompt for real.
Design your own quiz layout and test it on someone.
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Save the best example prompt you made today. Template prompts are great to reuse: just swap the topic!
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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!
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