Lesson 190 of 1570
Good Prompt / Bad Prompt
Take a mushy prompt and glow it up into a specific superstar.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1Lazy Prompts Get Lazy Answers
- 2prompt rewriting
- 3specificity
- 4iteration
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Section 1
Lazy Prompts Get Lazy Answers
AI is a mirror. Blah prompt in, blah prompt out. Sharp prompt in, sharp prompt out. The good news: rewriting a prompt takes like 15 seconds and changes everything.
Compare the options
| Lazy prompt | Glowed-up prompt |
|---|---|
| Tell me about dogs | Write 3 fun facts about golden retrievers for a 4th-grade science class |
| Make a story | Write a 150-word mystery story about a missing lunchbox, told by the lunchbox |
| Help me with math | Explain how to add fractions with different denominators, step by step, like I'm 10 |
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Build a prompt
Turn 'tell me a joke' into a way better prompt.
Goal: make it Three short pizza jokes, classroom-clean, with one pun, for a 9-year-old.
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Empty prompts just confuse the AI.
Understanding "Good Prompt / Bad Prompt" in practice: Understanding AI in this area gives you a real advantage in how you work and think. Take a mushy prompt and glow it up into a specific superstar — and knowing how to apply this gives you a concrete advantage.
- Apply prompt rewriting in your foundations workflow to get better results
- Apply specificity in your foundations workflow to get better results
- Apply iteration in your foundations workflow to get better results
- 1Apply Good Prompt / Bad Prompt in a live project this week
- 2Write a short summary of what you'd do differently after learning this
- 3Share one insight with a colleague
Iterate like a pro
- 1Write your first prompt
- 2Read the answer
- 3Tell AI what's wrong and what to change
- 4Repeat until it nails it
Key terms in this lesson
The big idea: the prompt is the product. Rewrite it, and you rewrite the answer.
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