Advanced techniques

Advanced techniques

Meta-prompting: have the AI write your prompts

AI can write and critique your prompts, as long as you make it ask questions first. Three prompts to copy and the flaws to fix.

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Advanced techniques

Getting AI to Reason Step by Step: When and How

"Think step by step" sometimes helps and does nothing elsewhere. The cases where it changes the result, and prompts to check the math.

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Advanced techniques

Reducing AI hallucinations: the methods that work

An AI invents sources, figures, and functions with total confidence. The instructions that limit the risk, and what no prompt can ever fix.

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Advanced techniques

Rewriting a text without distorting it

You ask for a letter to be "better written" and the AI changes the meaning, adds promises, or erases a nuance. How to fix what must not move.

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Advanced techniques

Tags and Delimiters: Separating Instructions From Data

When you paste an email or a document into your prompt, the AI may mistake the text for an instruction. How to separate them with tags or quotation marks.

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Advanced techniques

Getting JSON From AI: Reliable Structured Data

Prompts to extract invoices and forms into JSON or CSV, handle missing fields, and validate the result before sending it to a spreadsheet.

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Translating With AI: The Prompt and the Pitfalls

Language variant, formal or informal address, terms to keep, back-translation check: how to get a usable translation instead of an approximate word-for-word one.

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Advanced techniques

Summarizing and querying long documents with AI

An 80-page PDF isn't handled like an email. When to split, how to get sourced answers, and how to spot what the AI skipped.

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