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Prompting method
From Jeanne Beatrix Law
RPM in Five Quick Beats
Rhetorical Situation
Who’s reading? Why should they care? What form will this take? (Yes, even a Slack post counts as genre.)
Resource Curator
Park your must-use stats, sources, or style constraints here. Example: “Use EDUCAUSE 2025 data; cite in MLA; and skip buzzwords.”
Drafting Prompt
Chun
Prompt engineering advice
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9aRN5JkmL8
Based on the sources and our conversation history, the best methods for making what you want very clear to the language model revolve around clear and precise communication, much like explaining a task to a person who lacks specific context. The core idea is to "externalize yo
... See moreAdvice from Cal Flynn as quoted by Mike Sowden,
““A quotation, commonly attributed to the writer and pioneering French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, says: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” This, if
... See morefile:///C:/Users/gomez/Downloads/9780429345913_previewpdf.pdf “Desire lines are the paths people create through regular
usage. There are other names for them: social trails, pirate paths, cow paths,
donkey paths, goat tracks, elephant trails, and doubtless more. They appear where
people repeatedly choose to walk, and usually signify a route from A to B that is
quicker or more easily navigated than the formal path provided (see Figure 1.1
a, b, c). This can be interpreted as a design failure; the formal path was rejected
because there was a better way. Or perhaps there’s no path at all. Desire lines
can show the mismatch between what a designer thinks best and what people
actually prefer. They also speak of a sense of local knowledge, where local people
see better routes than those by designers or planners. The symbolism seems apt
for a book about putting local people at the centre of the design process, and
allowing their needs and wishes to shape development.” (Malone, 2018, p.4)