Use These 3 Prompting Tips If Your AI Writes Poor
And leash it right away
I’m not a big fan of sharing prompts.
(Yes, I’ve shared some with y’all)
But…
Unless it’s an exceptional one, I’d rather have you learn how to prompt and become a prompt master yourself.
And to learn how to prompt, you don’t need to rely on templates either.
You need to know what strengthens a prompt.
And that’s exactly what I’ll help you with now.
3 strengths to use while prompting:
1. Example
If you look over a few examples of some well-performing tweets before you write one, you’ll learn a lot and probably write another hitter.
AI works kinda the same.
It learns and adapts to the examples you provide within a prompt.
But even more interesting is that this way, it avoids creating a generic output.
(Exactly what we wish to get)
Here’s an example:
“You’re a professional email writer who always helps in increasing the sales with email marketing. Write a sales email for my fitness coaching class for people between the ages of 30 to 50 who are in need of staying healthy and living longer.
I want you to use the writing style and format from the email sample below:
[Put in the example here]”2. Format
It’s asking AI to generate the response in a specified format.
(It’s the layout and the structure.)
AI can generate outputs in many formats, and you can ask for any of them. Here are a few examples:
Table format
Bullet format
Lists format
Paragraphs style
Markdown
Let me show you an example here.
The prompt:
“Tell me 20 desires, 20 problems and 20 fears [your target audience] experience related to [the niche].
Structure your answer in a table. The X axis should be numbered 1-20 and the Y axis should include desires, needs and fears.”The output:
3. Tone
Tone is probably the most important part of a prompt.
It defines the style of the output. And you can define it in ways like:
Write in the reading level of a 3rd grader.
Use a casual tone of voice.
Make the output sound more fun.
Be more enthusiastic in ur writing.
Sound excited for the reader.
These are a few examples, but there a lot more ways to define a tone.
(Adjectives do the job most of the times)
But keep this in mind:
Tone can be defined with something other than an adjective too. The point is to tell AI how to make the output sound a certain way.
Plus, it should be relevant and consistent.
You can’t tell AI to sound like a child and target C-suite executives.
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Here it ends. Until next time…
Sami👋