Prompting guides
Practical guides to writing prompts that get useful answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI assistants, with ready-to-use examples from the library.
- How to write a good AI prompt: a practical guideA practical, step-by-step guide to writing AI prompts that get useful answers from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini: role, context, task, format, and how to check the result.Read the guide
- RTF vs RCTF vs RCTFVV: which prompt framework should you use?A side-by-side comparison of the RTF, RCTF and RCTFVV prompt frameworks, with the same task written three ways and simple rules for choosing between them.Read the guide
- The CO-STAR prompt framework explained, and how it compares to RCTFWhat each part of the CO-STAR prompt framework (Context, Objective, Style, Tone, Audience, Response) means, an example, and when to use CO-STAR or RCTF.Read the guide
- Few-shot vs chain-of-thought prompting: when to use eachFew-shot prompting shows the model examples; chain-of-thought asks it to reason step by step. What each technique is good at, with examples and when to combine them.Read the guide
- Prompt meaning: what is a prompt in AI? Parts and examplesWhat prompt means in AI and in everyday English, how to pronounce it, the parts of a good prompt, the main types of prompts and side-by-side examples.Read the guide
- Prompt meaning in Hindi: प्रॉम्प्ट का मतलब, AI प्रॉम्प्ट क्या है और उदाहरणPrompt meaning in Hindi: prompt का मतलब (तुरंत, प्रेरित करना, संकेत) और AI में प्रॉम्प्ट क्या होता है, अच्छे प्रॉम्प्ट के हिस्से और उदाहरण, आसान हिंदी में।Read the guide
- What is prompt engineering? A practical beginner’s guidePrompt engineering explained: what it is, why it matters, the core techniques, whether it is a job, and how to learn it with free and paid courses.Read the guide
- What is a system prompt? How to write one, with examplesWhat a system prompt is, how it differs from a user prompt, what to put in one, and system prompt examples for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and custom AI assistants.Read the guide
- Prompt templates: how to build reusable AI prompts, with examplesWhat a prompt template is, how to turn a prompt that worked once into one that works every time, and template examples to copy for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.Read the guide
- How to prompt reasoning models: what changes with “thinking” AIHow to prompt reasoning (thinking) models in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek: what to keep, what to stop doing, and when a reasoning model is worth it.Read the guide
- Prompt chaining: how to break big AI tasks into stepsWhat prompt chaining is, when to split a task into a sequence of prompts, how to pass results between steps, and prompt chain examples you can reuse.Read the guide