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Practice · 30 examples

Prompt examples

Compare the original prompt with the rewrite. You can copy the rewrite and adapt it to your task.

Your part

Each example ends with a step for you to take outside the prompt, such as setting access permissions, checking an answer or approving an action.

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Principle 2: A single source of truth for AI

Research

Updating the team wiki

Before

Summarize our onboarding process and save it to the wiki.

After

Summarize our onboarding process from the three attached documents, as a draft for review. List anything that looks out of date or contradictory.

Your part

Review and fix the draft, then publish it with an owner and today’s date. Archive the pages it replaces.

Why it works: The AI drafts and a person publishes, so nothing reaches the wiki until someone has checked it.

Principle 4: Limited permissions for AI agents

Research

Researching suppliers on the web

Before

Research these five suppliers online, then email each one asking for a quote.

After

Research these five suppliers on the web and summarize what each offers, with links. Draft a quote request for each, but don’t send them.

Your part

Give the agent no permission to send email for this task, and read the drafts before you send them. Web pages can carry hidden instructions.

Why it works: Without permission to send email, an agent that reads the open web is missing one part of the lethal trifecta.

Principle 6: Challenge and bias awareness

Research

Questioning a business case

Before

Explain why moving our sales team to a new CRM will save money.

After

We’re considering moving our sales team to a new CRM. What are the realistic costs and savings, what usually goes wrong in migrations like this, and what would we need to measure to know it worked?

Your part

Check the cost assumptions with finance, and ask a team that has done a migration what they’d do differently.

Why it works: An open question gets you the risks as well as the benefits, and a way to measure the result.

Principle 7: Verification proportionate to the stakes

Research

Writing with statistics

Before

Write a paragraph on the growth of the European AI market, with statistics.

After

Using only the three reports I’ve attached, write a paragraph on the European AI market. After each number, give the report and page. List any claim you couldn’t support.

Your part

Check every number against its page. Numbers you can’t find come out.

Why it works: A report title and page number beside each statistic let you check it against the original.