Your first great prompt
Write a prompt with the four ingredients that turn a vague request into a useful answer: role, task, context and format.
Day 1 of Prompting Path, a 30-day AI course with one 10-minute lesson and one real task a day. Day 0 to Day 8 are free.
The lesson
The biggest beginner mistake: prompts that are too short and too vague. "Write me an email" gets you a generic email. "Write me a polite, two-paragraph email to my landlord asking to fix the leaking radiator in the bedroom, friendly tone, mention I've reported it twice already" gets you something useful.
A good prompt usually has four ingredients:
- Role, who should the AI act as?
- Task, what exactly do you want?
- Context, what does it need to know?
- Format, how should the answer look?
Today's task is in the app
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