Prompt
Category: Fundamentals“PROMPT”
The instructions or question you give an AI so it knows what you want.
Lesson #2: Working With AI: Prompts, Data & Guardrails →Telling a new employee exactly what job to do.
Typing 'write a birthday message for my mom' into a chat app.
'Write a friendly estimate email for a 12x14 deck rebuild.'
'Summarize this contract in five bullet points a customer can understand.'
The quality of an AI's answer depends mostly on the quality of your prompt.
A prompt is the instruction you give an AI.
Write the same request two ways — vague and specific. Notice which one you'd rather hand to a new hire.
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