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Prompting

Writing prompts that get reliable, useful results from language models.

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Prompting Guide · 1 min

Anatomy of an Effective Prompt

The parts of a prompt that reliably produce good results, with a template you can adapt for almost any task.

Prompting 1 min read 1 Nov 2025

Prompting Guide · 2 min

Giving Models Context

Why most weak outputs come from missing context, and what background information to include in a prompt.

Prompting 2 min read 31 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Role Prompting: When It Helps and When It Doesn't

Telling a model to act as an expert or a persona can shape tone and focus — but it isn't a substitute for clear instructions.

Prompting 1 min read 30 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Using Delimiters and Tags in Prompts

How clearly marking documents, examples and instructions with tags or headings improves accuracy and safety.

Prompting 1 min read 28 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompting for Step-by-Step Reasoning

When asking a model to reason before answering improves results, how to ask for it, and how to keep the final answer clean.

Prompting 1 min read 27 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Asking Models to Self-Check Their Work

Verification prompts, second passes and critique loops that catch errors before you see them.

Prompting 1 min read 26 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompt Chaining: Breaking Tasks Into Steps

Splitting complex work into a sequence of focused prompts, where each step's output feeds the next.

Prompting 1 min read 25 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Controlling Output Length

How to get responses of the right length — no rambling, no truncation — with explicit limits and structure.

Prompting 1 min read 24 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompting for Tone and Style

How to get writing that sounds right for the audience — from formal to friendly — including matching a house style.

Prompting 1 min read 23 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Negative Prompting and Stating Constraints

How to express what a model must avoid, why positive framing usually works better, and when hard constraints need code.

Prompting 1 min read 22 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompting for Data Extraction

Pulling structured fields from invoices, emails and documents reliably with clear schemas, examples and validation.

Prompting 1 min read 21 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompting for Classification

Using language models as classifiers: defining categories, handling ambiguity, getting confidence and evaluating accuracy.

Prompting 1 min read 20 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompting Language Models to Write Code

How to get correct, maintainable code from AI: context, specifications, tests and review.

Prompting 1 min read 19 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompting for Summaries of Meetings and Calls

Turning transcripts into useful summaries with decisions, action items and owners — and avoiding invented commitments.

Prompting 1 min read 18 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Iterating on Prompts Systematically

Treating prompt development like engineering: test cases, one change at a time, and records of what worked.

Prompting 1 min read 17 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompting With Long Documents

How to get accurate answers from long contracts, reports and transcripts: document placement, quoting and section-by-section work.

Prompting 1 min read 16 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Multi-Turn Prompting and Conversation Design

Getting the best from a conversation with a model: building context, correcting course and knowing when to start fresh.

Prompting 1 min read 15 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompting Multimodal Models With Images

How to ask good questions about images, charts, screenshots and documents, and how to check the answers.

Prompting 1 min read 14 Oct 2025

Prompting Guide · 1 min

Prompt Templates and Variables

Building reusable prompts with placeholders for repeated tasks, and keeping templates safe and maintainable.

Prompting 1 min read 13 Oct 2025