✨ Prompt basics
What Makes a Great AI Prompt?
A great prompt gives the AI enough direction to produce a useful answer without guessing what you need.
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The simple anatomy of a strong prompt
🎯 Task
What should the AI do?
🧩 Context
What background does it need?
🎭 Role
What perspective should it use?
👥 Audience
Who is the answer for?
📋 Format
How should the answer be structured?
🚧 Constraints
What should it avoid or respect?
🌱 Examples
What style or output should it imitate?
✅ Quality bar
What would make the answer good?
Weak prompt
Write a blog post about productivity.Stronger prompt
Act as a practical productivity coach. Write a 900-word article for remote workers who feel overwhelmed. Use a friendly tone, include 5 actionable tips, add H2 headings, and finish with a checklist.The second prompt works better because it gives a role, audience, length, tone, structure, topic, and output expectation.
Common prompt mistakes
- Asking for “good” without defining what good means.
- Leaving out the audience or use case.
- Not specifying format.
- Asking for too many unrelated tasks at once.
- Not giving examples when style matters.