What is a prompt?
According to Last & Spakel (2023) a prompt is an instruction or question for a Generative AI-tool, to generate a specific response or output from the AI-tool.
Improve your results with the PREPARE and EDIT model
If you want to improve the output or results from your generative AI-tool, the quality of your prompt is important. A model that can be used is the PREPARE and EDIT model to help you create better output.
- In a prompt:
- Give the tool a specific role (give some context)
- Give explicit instructions (create questions, analyse a text, a summary etc)
- Define parameters (like how many words, specific tone of voice, in bullet points etc.)
- To create a better response you can also instruct the AI tool to:
- Ask you more in-depth questions and
- Rate the quality of the response (what was the thought process, what sources is it based on etc) and also share emotions (explain the importance for you) to create a better response.
After getting the results from the AI-tool, you can use the PREP model to check the output:
- Evaluate the response
- Check the reliability of used data
- Identify possible bias or false information and possible further questions and
- Transform the response so it's fitting your purpose
The PREP and EDIT model originates from the book 'The AI Classroom', written by Daniel Fitzpatrick, Amanda Fox & Brad Weinstein (2023).
In this newsletter from Dan Fitzpatrick you can find more information on how to create prompts and how to evaluate the output using the PREPARE and EDIT model.