Creating effective generative prompts is a skill you can master with practice (openai, claude, etc). Here’s an additional tip you should use to refine your technique for better results. I call it the prompt recap. So:
- Start a conversation: Prompting is not a one-off; it’s an interactive exchange. Begin by asking for what you need.
- Evaluate the response: Look at what the AI produces. Is it close to what you had in mind?
- Refine your request: Make adjustments based on the response. Sometimes it’s the small tweaks that bring big improvement until you have your desired output.
- Do the prompt recap: But don’t stop there. Once you have the desired result, ask the AI for a prompt recap: can you replay the prompt to generate this output? It will then produce an all-in-one prompt that gets you to your desired out.
The prompt recap shows you how the AI would construct the prompt. In doing so, it’s teaching you the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’. And from this you gain insights into how to craft prompts that get straight to the desired outputs.
Give it a go and let me know how you get on!
