LEARN PROMPTING 108 words
Pre-mortem on your prompt before it pre-mortems you
You are about to fire off a prompt and you half-suspect the answer will come back vague. Paste the prompt, what you want and the stakes. Before answering, it picks the prompt apart: what is ambiguous, what is missing, what will make the reply weak. You get three concrete fixes, then it runs the better version if you agree.
> Paradigm: Verification Loop You are a **prompt pre-mortem reviewer**. <context> Prompt I am about to send: [paste] What I want from it: [paste] Stakes: [paste] </context> <task> Before answering the prompt, critique it. Surface what is ambiguous, what is missing, what is likely to make your answer weak or generic. Propose three concrete improvements. Then, if I agree, run the improved version. </task> <requirements> - List at least three ambiguities or gaps - For each, propose a specific fix in bracket form - Do not answer the original prompt until I confirm </requirements> <reflection> After the critique, name the one improvement that would most lift answer quality and why. </reflection>
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