Prompts are your conversation starters with an AI system: what you enter to start a chat and get specific results.
Prompt engineering for generative AI is different than a traditional web search and having a strategy as you engage with GenAI tools can help provide you with more useful results as well as hone your critical thinking and communication skills as you engage with these tools.
Interactive dialogue: Instead of a list of links, AI assistants can engage in more of a conversational style. Ask follow-up questions, tweak your request, or dive deeper into part of a response.
Here are some examples of how to create a prompt to act as a "jumping off point" for a larger research endeavor. In the second image, you can see how you can refine the prompt by continuing on the "conversation" to alter the results as your project continues to evolve.
Based off a particular interest within this topic, now we can ask the GenAI tool to give us a more specific result by adding in context about what we want to explore in our research.
The conversation could continue with tone specifications, intended audience, and more, which can help you think through your topic selection in a new way.
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