{"id":4480,"date":"2025-10-20T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:29:19","slug":"a-little-better-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/10\/a-little-better-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little-Better Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here is an attempt to gain value from a chattering bot by wording the prompt a little differently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These chattering bots are everywhere. Some value is gained while some skill is lost. I thought of a better prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find, display the URL, and display a few sentences from three key commentaries regarding fill-in-the-blank.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Three&#8221; is a arbitrary small number, so replace as you see fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Find, display the URL, and display a few sentences from three key commentaries regarding the use of the robo ump in baseball.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find, display the URL, and display a few sentences from three key commentaries regarding value gained vs. skill lost in using a chatbot.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find, display the URL, and display a few sentences from three key commentaries regarding the use of the Oxford comma.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like the results better than using, &#8220;What are the arguments for and against fill-in-the-blank.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a musing on a Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Here is an attempt to gain value from a chattering bot by wording the prompt a little differently. These chattering bots are everywhere. Some value is gained while some skill is lost. I thought of a better prompt: Find, display the URL, and display a few sentences from three key commentaries regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,469,113,32,292,5],"tags":[393,470,225,154,295,128],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-artificial-intelligence","category-clarity","category-communication","category-tools","category-writing","tag-alternatives","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-tools","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}