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\nErica Newcome<\/p>\n
CLEAR stands for five core principles that should be applied to prompts: concise, logical, explicit, adaptive, and reflective.<\/p>\n
Newcome said a prompt can be a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole page with a set of instructions for the AI tool.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you provide AI with a clear specific prompt, it will increase the likelihood that your output will be more relevant and reliable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The prompts should: \u00a0<\/p>\n
Be concise: Ensure prompts are clear and exclude excessive language.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Be logical: Make sure prompts are structured and coherent.<\/p>\n
Be explicit: Define output specifications clearly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Be adaptive: Be flexible in refining prompts that provide unsuitable outputs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Be reflective: Continuously evaluate and improve prompts.<\/p>\n
AI is not a real person, so you do not need to write \u201cplease\u201d or \u201cthank you\u201d in your query.<\/p>\n
Newcome showed examples of prompts. One read:<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me about the French Revolution,\u201d while the other read, \u201cProvide a concise overview of the French Revolution, emphasizing its causes, major events, and consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then she asked the participants which was the most explicit. The answer was the second one because it will provide more context and examples.<\/p>\n
If your prompt does not give you the answer you are seeking, then you must adapt, said Newcome. Tweaking prompts based on output is necessary.<\/p>\n
For instance, if you ask Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT this question: \u201cTell me about the kind of birds I would see in Miami?\u201d The answer may be a very simple, general answer.<\/p>\n
But if you create a person (who are you, what is your profession) and give more details, the answer may be much more effective.<\/p>\n
So, Newcome tweaked the prompt to read: \u201cI am an ornithologist working for the Audubon Society checking for the migration patterns of birds in Miami. What time of year would the greatest migration have to report back to Audubon?\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer was detailed, provided names of birds as well as scientific studies that dealt with the topic and offered habitat surveys. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Once you have an answer from AI, it is important to verify the information, she said.<\/p>\n
Newcome said one way to do so is to use the SIFT Method, which provides criteria to evaluate the output of the prompts. SIFT stands for Stop before you read, Investigate the source (of the information), Find better coverage, and Trace claims.<\/p>\n
When presented with a website offered by Claude or ChatGPT one needs to ask if the website is trustworthy. If the source is not trustworthy, then type in keywords from the report into Google and see if the outputs are being covered by other trustworthy sources. If they are, that is a good sign, she said.<\/p>\n
Checking information provided by AI is crucial since Chatbots can provide wrong information, or hallucinations. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another framework is to be adaptive, since AI is changing so fast. What is relevant today may not be relevant a few weeks from now.<\/p>\n
You may want to adjust your prompt depending on current events.<\/p>\n
So, a prompt outcome may help you form the following prompts you ask.<\/p>\n
For instance, Newcome said, which prompt is more adaptive: \u201cExamine the relationship between social media usage and anxiety in adolescents,\u201d or \u201cDiscuss the impact of social media on mental health\u201d?<\/p>\n
Newcome said the first one is more adaptive because it gives more context to the answer and can be followed by other prompts that ask questions about how adolescents are affected in their school performance or in their socialization. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Since technology is improving and moving so fast, users should be reflective about their prompts by continuing to reflect on what they have asked and how to improve them, said Newcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As more workers, scholars, researchers, and students use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their work, the importance of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-185826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}