There's a myth about AI: using it automatically saves you time. That is simply not true.
Here's the truth: the prompts that end up saving you a lot of time take time and effort to set up. Writing the prompt itself isn't where you save time. You save time by swapping out the input over and over again.
That’s 100% not true.
If you’re putting in a generic prompt and then getting something you need to completely overhaul to create something decent, then it’s not saving you time.
Here’s the truth: sometimes, the prompts that save you the most time are the ones that take time and effort upfront. The prompt takes a little while. Then, you save time in putting the output into different forms and running it again and again.
This is where “reset prompts” help.
A reset prompt is an AI prompt that, once it’s created, you can run again and again by swapping out 1-2 pieces of information. It’s useful once you’ve identified a tedious activity that you do over and over again.
Let’s look at an example. Below is an AI prompt framework:
C - Context
Let the system know what you need it to know. Give it a persona, and describe that persona.
I - Instructions
Tell the AI what you’re going to do, and what it’s going to do.
D -Details
Add anything else you want the system to know. What style should it use? What audience should it target? What else should it know about the context, that you didn’t tell it earlier?
I - Input
Give it the data you want it to have. In the “Instructions,” you said you’d give it something. This is where you give it. If you said you’d give it notes, put the notes here. If you said you’d give it statistics, put them here.
When you get the output where you want it, you can ask the system to swap out something. You can ask it to rewrite it for a new audience (swapping out a detail). You can ask it to put it in another form (swapping out the instructions). Or you can ask it to do the same thing, but with new input.
In other pages, we’ll go over a few examples.