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How I Learned to Talk to AI (So It Actually Made Sense) Think of it like this: when you ask a vague question, you’ll get a vague, boring answer. But if you ask something specific, detailed, and with the right setup — you’ll unlock crazy-good responses which were exactly what you wanted At the core of it, when you write a prompt, you’re basically setting up the AI to predict the “right” sequence of words. You’re kind of shaping its thought process. Now yeah, you can go super technical with all the config stuff like temperature, top-p, system roles and all that — but let’s be real, most of y’all aren’t looking to get that deep (yet). So I’m gonna focus on the non-technical side: simple tricks, examples, and ways to write prompts that work really well — even if you’ve never touched a line of code so i will divide this into two parts , first part how to talk to general AI , second part how to talk to lovable and agentic AI How to talk to general AI (Chatgpt , claude etc) Be stupidly specific. Don’t be vague. The clearer your request, the better the output. → “Write a 3-line poem about a tired cat in New York” is way better than “Write a poem.” Talk like you’re briefing a smart intern. The AI is smart — but only if you guide it properly. Assume it knows nothing unless you tell it exactly what you want. You gotta explain it everything and guide it on your vision and what you want exactly Use examples. Always. AI is a pattern-matching machine. If you show it an example, it’ll catch the vibe instantly. So as much as you can , try to add examples in your prompts , it will give AI a context for your ask → “Make it like this: [Snippetz labs design like ].” Set a tone. The way it sounds matters. If you want it to sound a certain way like , you want a email to sound proffetional , then write it in your prompt → “Write this in a playful tone” or “Make it sound proffetional” Use “Act as if…” prompts. You are basically instructing your AI to do a role in a proffession every time you ask it anything , so like for example — You ask it to write you a email , you can write “act as if you are a proffesional writer” → “Act as if you’re launching a startup tomorrow.” Say how it should feel. You can shape the emotional energy of the reply. → “Make this motivational, like a TED Talk.” If you want a text to be like dramatic or calming — write it So for example, I want to ask AI to tell me how to start a personal blog. Now, using all the tips above, here’s how I’d actually write the prompt: “Act as if you’re a blogging coach helping a complete beginner. Explain step by step how to start a personal blog in 2025, using tools that are free or cheap. Keep the tone super friendly, like you’re talking to a friend over coffee. Make it feel motivational, like a TED Talk, and give me at least one real-world example of someone who did it well.” Now comes part 2 - Prompting AI agents like lovable etc read my article attached for it