4.6 Practical Prompt Exercises

Good prompting is a skill you build by practising. The best results come from combining what you have learned: be clear and specific, structure the request, assign a useful role, and ask for step-by-step reasoning when the task is complex. Then look at the answer, see what is missing, and refine the prompt — this is called iteration.

For example, a small business owner in Hawassa might start with "Write an ad for my shop," get a generic result, then improve it to: "Act as a marketing expert. Write a 2-line Facebook ad in Amharic for my fresh-juice shop in Hawassa, friendly tone, ending with our phone number." The second prompt produces something far more usable.