A prompt is a natural language request submitted to a language model to receive a response. Prompts can contain questions, instructions, contextual information, short examples, and partial input for the model to complete or continue. After the model receives a prompt, it can generate text, embeddings, code, images, videos, music, and more, depending on the model used.
Tips for Designing Your Prompts
You can include whatever information you want in a critical prompt for the task. Generally, prompt content falls within one of the following components:
It can be a question or some instructions on what to do. Your prompt must ask for an answer for something to be written or created.
Example: “Write a paragraph on your favourite artist.”
System instructions are passed to the model before any user inputs the prompt. Note how the prompt limits what era responses can come from.
Example: “Ask AI what is important about this artist and how this artist engages in activism.”
Contextual information, or context, is information you include in the prompt that the model uses or references when generating a response. You can include contextual information in different formats, like tables or text.
Prompt
Construct a proposal for an activist art project in Lethbridge, Alberta.
What limits does the language used in the prompt set?
Location: Lethbridge, Alberta
Format: Proposal
Project: activist art project
A prompt can include a few-shot examples to show the model what getting it right looks like. These examples are especially practical in dictating the style and tone of the response and customizing the model's behaviour.
The Question or Task
Choose five artists and classify them by style, genre, and medium.
Create an Example List
An example list (shown below) provides AI with some references from which to learn.
Artist: Ai Weiwei
Style: Conceptual art, performance art
Genre: Contemporary Protest Art
Medium: Sculpture, Film
Artist: Faith Ringgold
Style: Feminist art
Genre: works address issues of race, gender, and social justice
Medium: painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, written word,
The Complete Prompt:
Use the following example list to classify the artists by style, genre, and medium.
Artist: Ai Weiwei
Style: Conceptual art, performance art
Genre: Contemporary Protest Art
Medium: Sculpture, Film
Artist: Faith Ringgold
Style: Feminist art
Genre: works address issues of race, gender, and social justice
Medium: painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, written word.
AI engine answer:
Sure, here are the classifications for the artists you mentioned:
Ali Ferzat
Style: Political cartooning, Satirical art
Genre: Protest Art, Political Commentary
Medium: Cartoons, Illustrations
Anjali Mehta
Style: Contemporary art, Illustration
Genre: Feminist Art, Social Commentary
Medium: Illustration, Mixed Media
Brady Black
Style: Reportage Drawing, Street Art
Genre: Social Justice Art, Community Art
Medium: Pen and Ink, Watercolor, Murals
Hank Willis Thomas
Style: Conceptual Art
Genre: Identity Art, Social Commentary
Medium: Photography, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Installation
If you have any more artists you’d like to classify or need further details, please ask!
Resources for Prompt Design
The following links are external links that provide a wealth of knowledge on prompt design.
ChatGPT for Educators | Prompting 101 - Beginners Resource
In this guide, Fabien Maurin (Twitter) will show you how straightforward it can be to generate unique, meaningful pedagogical material using ChatGPT.
Prompt Design – Advanced Resource
The following link introduces you to prompt design and explains the different types of prompts you may have to design.
Prompt Engineering – Advanced Resource
This page introduces some basic concepts to get you started in designing prompts. A prompt is a natural language request submitted to a language model to receive a response.