Prompt Engineering Lesson 8: Build Your Own Prompt Library
Save and reuse prompts that work: a simple library in OneNote, Excel or text files, templates with placeholders, custom instructions, Copilot prompt saving, and…
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Prompt patterns that give reliable answers.
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Prompt patterns that give reliable answers.
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Prompt Engineering Lesson 7: Avoiding Wrong Answers (Hallucinations)
Why AI makes things up, which questions are risky, prompts that reduce it (give sources, allow “I don’t know”), and a verification routine for…
Read article →Prompt Engineering Lesson 6: Long Documents and Summaries
Prompt Engineering Lesson 6: Long Documents and Summaries
Summarise and question long documents: summary types, asking for quotes and page references, chunking very long files, comparing versions and meeting-minutes prompts.
Read article →Prompt Engineering Lesson 5: Getting Structured Output — Tables and JSON
Prompt Engineering Lesson 5: Getting Structured Output — Tables and JSON
Ask for answers you can use directly: markdown tables to paste into Excel, CSV, JSON with a fixed schema, and extracting fields from messy…
Read article →Prompt Engineering Lesson 4: Step-by-Step Reasoning and Checking
Prompt Engineering Lesson 4: Step-by-Step Reasoning and Checking
Get better answers on calculations and decisions: ask for steps, break big tasks into stages, have the model check its own work, and verify…
Read article →Prompt Engineering Lesson 3: Examples and Templates (Few-Shot)
Prompt Engineering Lesson 3: Examples and Templates (Few-Shot)
Show, don’t tell: give the model one to five examples to copy tone, structure or classification rules, and build reusable prompt templates with placeholders.
Read article →Prompt Engineering Lesson 2: Clear Instructions — Role, Task, Context, Format
Prompt Engineering Lesson 2: Clear Instructions — Role, Task, Context, Format
Write prompts that work first time with the role-task-context-format pattern, constraints, audience and length, plus before/after examples for office tasks.
Read article →Prompt Engineering Lesson 1: How Chat AI Reads Your Prompt
Prompt Engineering Lesson 1: How Chat AI Reads Your Prompt
What happens when you send a prompt: tokens, context windows, next-word prediction, why wording matters, why answers vary, and what the model does and…
Read article →Writing Prompts That Get Working Excel Formulas (and Why Vague Prompts Fail)
Writing Prompts That Get Working Excel Formulas (and Why Vague Prompts Fail)
How to ask an AI assistant for Excel formulas, VBA and SQL so the answer actually works: describe the layout, give sample rows, state…
Read article →7 Prompt Patterns That Get Better Answers from ChatGPT and Claude
7 Prompt Patterns That Get Better Answers from ChatGPT and Claude
Seven practical prompt patterns — context, examples, format, steps, constraints, delimiters and questions first — with before-and-after prompts you can reuse.
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