Which prompt is likely to give the best result?
Why C is the answer
Summarize this review in two sentences for a customer support team
Good prompts state the task, format and audience clearly.
In detail
- It states the task, the length and the audience.
- Add the format you want as well.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
"Summarize this review in two sentences for a support team" gives far better results than "Write something", because it states the task, length and audience.
See it in different ways
mindmap
root((Settings))
Temperature
Lower is more consistent
Higher is more varied
Max tokens
Limits reply length
System prompt
Role and rulesmindmap
root(("Good prompt"))
n1["Task"]
n2["Summarize"]
n3["Length"]
n4["Two sentences"]
n5["Audience"]
n6["Support team"]Key point: Specific prompts work better.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Tell me stuff
- It gives no information.
- B. Make it good and also make it better than before
- "Better" has no definition.
- D. Write something about the product
- It gives no task detail.