Prompting

Ask Clearly: Your First Superpower

A prompt is what you type to an AI. Clear asks get clear answers. Learn the difference between a fuzzy question and a sharp one.

Give Context: The AI Can't See Your World

The AI doesn't know your age, grade, or what book you're reading. If you tell it, the answer fits you. If you don't, it guesses wrong.

The Try-Again Trick

The first answer is almost never the best answer. Great prompters try, look at what came back, and tweak. Small changes make huge differences. Not even the person who made the AI.

The AI Is Not a Mind Reader

It feels magical, but the AI can't know what's in your head. Secrets, surprises, unspoken assumptions — you have to say them out loud.

One Question at a Time

Piling five questions into one prompt confuses the AI and confuses you. Ask one. Read the answer. Then ask the next.

Safety Words: Things You Never Type to AI

AI chats can be read by other people and saved forever. Some information never belongs in a prompt, no matter what the AI asks.

The Younger-Sibling Trick

When you want something explained simply, ask the AI to explain it like you're a younger kid. This trick works at every age and every level.

Follow-Up Questions Are a Superpower

The AI remembers what you asked earlier in the same chat. That means you can ask 'why?' and 'what about...?' like a real conversation.

Give AI Context: Why, Who, What, and How You're Asking, Part 1

Talking to AI is like talking to a helpful but not-very-smart friend.

Format Your Answers: Lists, Tables, Length, and Layout, Part 1

Sometimes a short question gets a great answer.

Show AI What You Mean: Examples and Demonstrations

AI works MUCH better when you show it an example of what you want..

What AI Gets Wrong: Limits, Mistakes, and When to Ask a Human

AI doesn't always get it right the first time.

Tell AI Who to Be: Roles, Characters, and Pretend Mode, Part 1

Don't share personal information with AI — your full name, address, school, phone number, or photos of yourself..

When the Answer Isn't Right: Feedback, Iteration, and Trying Again, Part 1

Don't stop at the first answer.

Advanced Moves: Get AI to Explain, Check, Quiz, and Improve, Part 1

If AI's answer is too hard to understand, ask AI to explain it more simply..

Creative Prompting: Moods, Rhymes, Poems, and Fun

AI is great at finding rhymes.

Get More from AI: Options, Rankings, Lists, and Comparisons

AI is amazing at coming up with names — for pets, characters, businesses, anything..

Ask AI to Think Step by Step

When you want AI to do something tricky, ask it to think step by step. The answer comes out smarter.

Tell AI What NOT to Do: Negative Prompting

Sometimes telling AI what NOT to do is just as important as telling it what to do.

Tell AI Who to Be: Roles, Characters, and Pretend Mode, Part 2

Make AI more fun by asking it to pretend to be a character.

Format Your Answers: Lists, Tables, Length, and Layout, Part 2

You can ask AI for short, medium, or long answers — your choice.

Advanced Moves: Get AI to Explain, Check, Quiz, and Improve, Part 2

You can give AI rules to follow — no big words, no scary stuff, etc.

When the Answer Isn't Right: Feedback, Iteration, and Trying Again, Part 2

You don't have to start over each time. Keep building like LEGO.

Give AI Context: Why, Who, What, and How You're Asking, Part 2

Yes/no questions help you zoom in on the answer fast — like 20 Questions.