Prompting Skills playbook/Module 1 · Foundations

Day 04 / 100 · Foundations · Context is king

Context in. Quality out.

The biggest gap between a generic answer and a great one is what the model knows about your situation.

Audience

Who Reads It

Customers, execs, developers, a regulator. Each needs different words.

Purpose

What It Should Do

Inform, persuade, calm down, get a decision, get a sign-off.

Background

What Happened

The facts, the history, what's been tried and what's decided.

Limits

What's Off The Table

Budget, policy, legal lines, things you can't promise.

Tell it what a new hire would need to know.