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===== The 3 simple elements I’ve used for prompts since early 2023: =====

☝️ ME — Tell the AI who you are (or give it a persona).

How can AI assist without knowing who it’s assisting?

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⏫ Level-Up: Read a few prompting guides. Good prompts are structured, similar to well-formed contracts and briefs.

✌️ YOU — Tell the AI who it is, and its areas of expertise.

Today’s large language models (LLMs) are trained on huge volumes of public and licensed text, including much of the public internet. You still need to guide the model on what’s important.

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⏫ Level-Up: Give the AI top-tier credentials as a persona, so it understands the level of rigor and tone you want:

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👌 STUFF — Give the AI what it needs to succeed. (“Context.”)

Instruct it clearly and attach any needed materials. But don’t overload it — AI has a limited “memory” (context window) per chat, so try to keep each thread focused on one discrete task.

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⏫ Level-Up: Learn about “context engineering,” which focuses on providing the right context to get better AI responses.