The trap with operations prompts is asking for the finished thing. Ask for options instead, then bring your taste to the edit.
Cut before you polish
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
Name the failure modes
Ask for the reasoning, then the result. When the model shows its steps you can see exactly where to push back.
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
Ask for the reasoning, then the result. When the model shows its steps you can see exactly where to push back.