AI Prompts
Writing Prompts
Section titled “Writing Prompts”See “Improve Prompt Results” section of Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals, Generative AI - Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: Generative AI from Improve prompt results - Training | Microsoft Learn
Good prompts provide the AI with:
- Goal (what you want), see tasks below
- Context (people involved, why you need something), see job types below
- Information sources to use (attachments, documents, links, meetings)
- Expectation on what you want (tone, type of output, format, response length and details like sources, examples of results you want like few shot method)
- Iterate on the previous prompt
Other tips:
- Use positive instructions, tell model what to do instead of what not to do
- Be specific and detailed and avoid “what does this do” where “this” is unclear or prompts with a large scope of possible results
- Use terms likely to appear in the context or expected results
Tasks and Jobs for Prompts
Section titled “Tasks and Jobs for Prompts”Example Tasks and Job Types for Prompts from Microsoft Copilot Prompts Gallery with tips, examples with my additions
- Catch up
- Create
- Ask
- Understand
- Learn
- Schedule
- Edit
- Prepare
- Analyse
- Code
- Find
- Design
- Execute
- Ideate
Job Types
Section titled “Job Types”-
Department
- Accessibility
- Frontline Management
- Executive
- Human Resources
- Marketing
- Sales
- Communications
- Marketing
- Operations
- Finance
- Project Management
- Information Technology
- Customer Service
- Legal
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Industry
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Sustainability
- Financial Services
- Energy
- Consumer Goods
- Mobility
- Nonprofit
- Government
- Healthcare
- Media and Entertainment
- Education - Student / Faculty
Agentic Prompts
Section titled “Agentic Prompts”Write a file like in markdown with:
- Problem / Goal
- Explain agent’s role
- Tasks to follow
- Response expectations
- Example results and/or resources for agent to refer to