Artificial Intelligence All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 6

Learning Advanced Prompting

IN THIS CHAPTER

Prompting with the result in mind

Understanding all the ways to target and add data

Adjusting the AI’s approach to interpreting data

Changing data influence to direct responses

In Chapter 2 of this mini-book you learned basic and intermediate prompting skills. In this chapter, you learn advanced prompting skills and some unexpected ways to boost the power in your prompts by using memory features and temperature settings. Don’t worry. It’s not as hard as it may sound. You can start using these techniques right away, too!

Starting at the End: Defining Desired Outputs before Prompting

If you want to make sure that GenAI results take the direction you want, give it a clear sense of the destination. After all, it’s impossible to plan the best path to take if you have no idea where you want to go.

Even if you’re using GenAI to explore a topic or dive deep into data discovery, you should be clear about your reason for doing so. In other words, have a point to the exercise before prompting. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself adrift, riding ...