In this episode, learn Foundation Principle Number Eight: Ask AI for help with AI.
You will discover a powerful technique to get better results from generative AI models. You’ll learn how to improve your prompts and tasks by letting AI guide the information gathering process. You will uncover critical information you did not know you needed to provide. You’ll gain a valuable strategy for making AI a truly helpful partner in your work. Watch now to master asking AI for the help you need!
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This is Part Eight in our Foundation Principles of Generative AI. Principle Number Eight: Ask AI for help with AI.
If you’re not sure how to use these tools—today’s tools—as long as you are using Principle Three, which is “Use a reasoning model, unless you have a reason not to,” they’re really good at helping you do a task. You can say to a model, “Here’s a prompt. I want you to take on the role of a prompt engineer. I want you to summon your knowledge of prompt engineering. I want you to help me improve this prompt by telling me what prompt engineering techniques would be a good fit for this prompt, what things could go wrong with this prompt. Here’s my prompt to determine my intent.”
The magic question—to the extent that there’s anything magic about AI; there really isn’t. It’s all math. Math and science are like magic, but real. The magic question is this: Ask me one question at a time.
No matter what you’re doing, you might say, “Here is a blog post I want to write, and this is my intent. I know that I’m not providing enough information. Ask me one question at a time until you have enough information to carry out the task.”
“Here’s a piece of code, or here’s a project I want to work on. Let’s build some requirements. Ask me one question at a time until you have enough information to do the work.”
“Here is a prompt I want to improve. Summon all this knowledge that you have, and ask me one question at a time until you have enough information to reconstruct the prompt to be as robust as possible.”
Generative AI models, particularly reasoning models, are so smart today that they can help you. They can basically be tutors for you on the use of AI and to get better at it.
But you have to ask. You have to, instead of saying, “Here’s what I want you to do, just do the thing and hope it turns out well,” say, “Here’s what I want to do. Help me do this better.”
Ask me one question at a time until we’re confident we can accomplish the task.
This is where things like the 5P framework from Trust Insights come in handy: Purpose, People, Process, Platform, Performance—all five areas. There are probably questions that you need to answer in each of them. You can actually download that. If you go to trustinsights.ai/5Pframework, the PDF is available on our website.
No forms to fill out, no information to give.
You drop that PDF into a chat and say, “Here’s what I want to do. Here is a process, the 5P framework. Ask me one question at a time until you have all the information that you need for the 5P framework to help me do this task, whether it’s building code or writing strategy.”
If you ask AI for help, it will help you probably better than a human can, because it knows its own latent knowledge. It knows what’s in the background of its own capabilities and can help construct better versions of pretty much anything you give it when it has all the information.
And you don’t know what information you’re missing because if you did, it wouldn’t be missing. Machine can help you fill in those gaps.
So that’s Principle Eight: Ask AI for help with AI. Use the magic question: Ask me one question at a time until you have enough information to execute this task.
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