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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.

3 min read

Getting started

Dialing In the Tone of an Answer Without Spending an Hour

Describing a tone with adjectives doesn't work. Three quick methods: situate the reader, show a model, move the slider one notch at a time.

3 min read

Getting started

The follow-ups that turn an average answer around

Eight ready-to-paste follow-ups to improve a lukewarm AI answer: remove the generic, compare versions, get a critique, cut, verify.

4 min read

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.

3 min read

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.

5 min read

AI images

Art Styles in AI Images: Describing Without Imitating an Artist

Medium, period, line, palette: the grid for getting a precise, original style in AI images, without naming a living artist.

5 min read

Understanding AI

AI temperature: what the settings really change

Temperature, top-p, maximum length: what these sliders are for, when to touch them, and how to get the same effect without access to them.

5 min read

Getting started

Test a Prompt Before You Rely on It: A Simple Method

Tricky cases, written criteria, repeated runs: how to check in half an hour that a prompt holds up before using it for real.

5 min read

AI images

Legible text in an AI image

Warped letters, invented words: how to ask for a short text in an AI image, how to check it, and when to add it afterward instead.

3 min read

Understanding AI

Tokens and the Context Window: Why the AI Loses the Thread

If your chatbot loses the thread after thirty messages, it's mechanical. What tokens are and how to sustain a long conversation.

5 min read

Advanced techniques

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.

5 min read

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.

5 min read