In this course, you've learned the fundamentals of prompt engineering and how to use AI to supercharge your productivity at work. Now it's time to put your new skills into practice by creating a prompt that will help AI quickly understand your unique professional context.

The Goal

Your goal is to create a concise "professional overview prompt" that you can use at the beginning of any conversation with an AI assistant like ChatGPT or Claude. This prompt will provide key background information about your work situation, enabling the AI to deliver more relevant and useful responses from the start.

Whether you're an app developer like the course instructor, a freelance designer, a teacher, or in any other profession, this exercise will help you reflect on the most important aspects of your work and communicate them effectively to AI.

The Process

Reflect on your professional role, key responsibilities, current projects, and goals. What are the most essential things an AI assistant would need to know to help you work more productively?
Draft your professional overview prompt. Aim for 1-3 short paragraphs. Include context on your:
- Job title and main responsibilities
- Industry and type of organization you work for
- Current projects and priorities
- Professional goals and challenges
- Anything else you feel is critical for an AI to understand to assist you effectively
Refine your prompt for clarity and concision. Remember, you'll be using this to kick off many conversations with AI, so keep it brief while still painting a meaningful picture of your work.
Reflect on how you think using this prompt could enhance your day-to-day productivity or help you tackle a current professional challenge. Write a few sentences capturing your thoughts.
Store your prompt somewhere easily accessible. You can use the Eazl.ai app (free account required) which is designed for prompt management. Or simply save it in a note-taking app or document that you can quickly copy and paste from when needed.

Example Prompt

Here's an example professional overview prompt from the course instructor:

----- Start Sample Prompt -----

In between the <app> tags, you'll find overview of Eazl.ai (hereafter the "App").

<app>

# Overview

Eazl.ai is an AI platform for your work. It's unique in that it's an AI platform focused on personal productivity.

## Core Functionalities

It enables users to save Notes and use those Notes in Prompts. A Note is just a text string that we render in a nice, user-friendly way through the app interface. Prompts are mixes of Notes plus single-use text strings (text strings only used in a specific Prompt).

Notes are useful for:

- Saving general instructions to give to AI models (for example, "My Writing Preferences" or "My Business Philosophy" or "Custom Instructions for Templates")

- Saving details about a topic that's important to the user, for example "My Brand Guidelines" or "Information about the Members of My Team" or "Notes from Previous Conversations"

- Storing templates and forms, for example "Design Thinking Form" or "Client Proposal Template" or "Cover Letter Structure"

The power of Eazl.ai is that, when a Note changes and it has been used in a Prompt, the Prompt automatically changes. So, users can keep their Prompts designed as they need to and change and evolve Notes as needed without having to rebuild their Prompts.

Additionally, Eazl.ai enables users to use their Prompts with many different AI models (like ChatGPT, Claude, Google's models, etc.). This has many advantages:

- choosing the model best-suited for a given prompt

- choosing the most affordable AI model

- switching to a different model easily when one doesn't work well

## Memberships

Users can be at one of three membership tiers.

### Free Tier

This tier enables the user to store an unlimited number of Notes and build and maintain up to 10 prompts. They also have the ability to collaborate with people on both their Notes and Prompts. This tier is where users start. It's a nice way for them to get to know the application without spending any money.

### Unlimited Prompts

This tier gives users the ability to build and manage an unlimited number of AI prompts. It enables the user to use Eazl as their go-to prompt management application. It's a good option for students, side-hustlers, and small businesses who need a good AI prompt management system and want to handle their generative AI work through a consumer-grade AI service. This tier does give the user access to members-only AI educational experiences, like online classes and members-only online meetups.

### Member

This tier give the user all of the benefits of the Unlimited Prompts tier as well as access to features that professionals will find appealing, like:

- The ability to use their prompts with any of the AI models supported by Eazl, which means that their generative AI work is done securely and in private, with no data / information leakage to any third parties

- The ability to upload and store files that they can use to perform generative AI work in batches (for example, analyzing 30 files at once with a given prompt)

- The ability to use their prompts as API endpoints for integrations with other applications and workflows

## Advanced Features

Eazl.ai also enables users to:

- use their prompts to batch process files: for example, someone who has to review 30 resumes or 100 essays can build a prompt, then generate a unique response (using generative AI) for each one of these files

- use their prompts via API call: this enables people to build their AI work into other applications, like Google Workspace or another application

- publish their prompts: users can make a prompt public, which makes the Prompt and all Notes associated with it accessible to anyone on the Internet and enables the publisher of the Prompt to use it to establish themselves as a thought leader to their team or the general public

</app>

----- End Sample Prompt -----

Creative Challenge (Optional)

Want to flex your creative muscles? Try reframing your professional overview through one of these fun lenses:

Pretend you're explaining your job to a curious 10-year-old. How would you describe what you do and why it's important in simple terms?
If your work was a movie, what would the genre and title be? Describe the key "plot points" of your professional story.
Imagine you're being interviewed about your work on a podcast. What's the most engaging story you could tell to introduce yourself and your professional journey to the audience?

Feel free to come up with your own creative angles too! The goal is to explore new, memorable ways to communicate what you do.

Get Started!

Take some time to reflect and craft your professional overview prompt. When you're ready, upload it to the project gallery to share with your classmates and get feedback. Feel free to check out what others have created for inspiration, and don't hesitate to iterate on your prompt over time as your work evolves.

Happy prompt engineering!

Erim Gürkan

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