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The Fine Art And Science Of AI Prompts

Ross Thompson
3 min readOct 17, 2023

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The quality of AI output is dependent upon the instructions given to the instrument by the user. You may have had an experience similar to mine. On various AI services I entered a short sentence of instruction. A basic sentence saying what I was after. Often the output was mediocre causing me to form an opinion about the AI service as ‘not much good’.

I have since learned it was not the AI service that was at fault. Rather it was my inexperience at giving the thing instruction — aka prompting. AI prompting has become somewhat of an industry. One branch of the industry is the AI Prompt Market-Place. Websites have sprung up where you can buy and sell prompts. https://promptbase.com/ https://prompti.ai/ promptattack.com, https://chatx.ai/marketplace/ https://promptunity.com/ https://prompt4me.com/ and https://www.aifrog.io/ are some of them.

These sites have prompts for sale on every conceivable topic in demand for work on the internet. Below is a screen shot from aifrog.io offering an e-book prompt for ChatGPT. A sample e-book obtained from the prompt is shown on the same page. In my opinion the sample e-book is pretty good.

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Ross Thompson
Ross Thompson

Written by Ross Thompson

I am a New Zealand Citizen. living in Melbourne, Australia. I am a longtime Christian. I write kid’s fiction, and have non fiction published on various topics.

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