Effective Prompts
When using AI tools, the AI-generated content is only as good as your question. If you ask a vague question, you will get less helpful information. It's important to understand how to generate the most helpful responses. Here are some general guidelines:
- Continue asking questions and refining your prompt.
- Research your subject before asking your question so that you use the right terminology.
- Give more context for your prompt (For example, if you want comments on an article that you're writing, include your audience and the tone that you want.)
- Ask "Do you need more context to answer my question?"
- Start a new conversation when you're switching topics.
Potential Uses of AI
| Use |
Sample Prompt |
| Generate & narrow topics |
Give me 5 more specific areas of research on the impact of social media on loneliness in young adults. |
| Review information for a test |
Can you ask me 20 increasingly difficult questions on the Peloponnesian War that follow Bloom's Taxonomy of learning from remembering to evaluating and tell me how I can improve each answer? |
| Feedback on your argument |
In my introduction, which sentence would you identify as my thesis? |
| Find potential causes of bugs in your code |
Why would my code return an "IndexError: list index out of range" in Python 3.12? |
| Personalized grammar feedback |
Can you identify where I've used informal language in my research paper? |
| Link to further research |
Use a tool such as ResearchRabbit to link to ancestor and descendent articles |
