From the course: Build Your AI Awareness Skills: GenAI Tips for Nontechnical Users
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Crafting the conversation: The art of prompting an AI assistant
From the course: Build Your AI Awareness Skills: GenAI Tips for Nontechnical Users
Crafting the conversation: The art of prompting an AI assistant
- In our last film, we discussed how treating AI as a collaborative partner boosts productivity. Now let's elevate that partnership by mastering how you communicate with AI through prompts, which is another way of saying instructions or questions you give it. Just as a well-crafted speech can inspire a team, clear and effective prompts can turn AI from a passive tool into an active problem-solver. So let's explore how to craft prompts that set the scene for your conversation with your AI assistant, helping you achieve more precise and valuable results. It's useful to think of a prompt as a conversation starter, because it shapes the direction of the following dialogue between you and your AI assistant, which is why it's so important to refine these conversation starters using three key steps. Assuming we start with a vague prompt, like, "What digital strategies can I use to increase sales?" we know just by reading it that it's fairly unlikely to result in a personalized response. So…
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