Lab 5. Useful prompts and use cases

Now here comes the fun part, and exploration for your Prompt Engineering (PE) journey. Be sure you have AnythingLLM (or Open-WebUI) available, and open in a new Workspace. The testing "Who is Batman?" workspace should be left alone for this. Maybe call it "Learning Prompt Engineering" or the like, just like below.

Brain storming prompt

Now lets try our first real prompt, copy the following into the message box:

I'm looking to explore [subject] in a [format]. Do you have any suggestions on [topics] I can cover?

This is a good "brain storming idea" prompt. Fill in [subject], [format], and [topics] for liking, I'll be running:

I'm looking to explore pasta making recipes. Do you have any suggestions on recipes that are unique and challanging?

As you can see granite-3.1 comes back with some very challenging options:

Now if you put the same question in does it give you the same? Or is it different?

I'm a fan of Homemade Ravioli, so lets ask what the recipe is for that, in the message box in this thread I'll write out:

I do like some homemade ravioli, what is the spinach ricotta and cheese recipe you suggest?

Now this may seem odd, or even pointless, but hopefully you can start seeing that if you treat the prompt like a conversation that you interate on, you can talk back and forth with the granite-3.1 and find interesting nuggets of knowledge.

Client or Customer email generation

Next create a new "thread" so the context window resets, and lets try something everyone has probably already done, but give you a "mad libs" prompt that can help just churn them out for you.

Take the following prompt, and fill it out to your content. Have some fun with it :)

I want you to act as a customer support assistant who is [characteristic]. How would you respond to [text] as a representative of our [type] company?

My version will be:

I want you to act as a customer support assistant who is an expert in shipping logistics.  How would you respond to client who has had their freight lost as a representative of our company?

Oh, that's not nearly enough, or interesting right? Well it's because we haven't interated on it, we just wrote a "client" with no context, or what they may have lost. So lets see if we can fill it out more:

The freight they lost was an industrial refrigerator, from Burbank, California to Kanas City, MO. I need you to write out an apology letter, with reference to the shipping order, of #00234273 and the help line of 18003472845, with a discount code of OPPSWEDIDITAGAIN for 15% off shipping their next order.
Mention that sometimes the trucks have accidents and need to be repaired and we should be able to reach out in a couple weeks.

So much better! With more context, and more of a back story to what you are asking for, building off the intial prompt, we got something that with just a small tweaks we can email to our client.

Your work history prompt

You probably have your resume on this machine we are working on right? Lets take it and build a "blurb" about your skill set and who you are and maybe if you are feeling adventurous you can even get a cover letter out of it. (Don't forget to start a new thread!)

Here's a prompt to help you getting started:

The following text is my resume for my career up until my most recent job. I am [your job now] with [number of years of experiance] considered
an expert or highly skilled individual in [your core skill set]. I am looking to build a couple paragraph explanation on why someone should
hire me for the next role with both my modern skill set, and my previous expertise

Now for mine, it wasn't great, but it at least give me somethings to work off of. Again, this is just a start, but you can build off of this blurb and see what you can actually accomplish.

Zero, Single, Multi Shot prompting

Now that we've played with a couple different versions of prompts, lets talk about the differences between them: - Zero Shot: No previous data or guidelines given before completing request. - Our "brain storming prompt" was a zero shot prompt, it just started with "do this thing." Then we built off of it, and turned it into a Single Shot prompt. - One Shot: One piece of data or guideline given before completing request. - Our email option was a One Shot/Single Shot prompt, because we gave more context on the email and referenced the situation. You'll notice that this is where you'll normally start. - Few Shot: Multiple pieces of data or guidelines given before completing request. - Finally our resume one is a Few Shot, because hopefully you did some back and forth to build out a great blurb about yourself, and how you can be ready for this next great job.