A short YouTube video by Mark Wickersham advising accountants and bookkeepers to create prompt templates as small systems. He argues that building a library of reusable prompt templates yields predictable, better outcomes and speeds access to effective prompts.
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It's worth spending the time to craft a better prompt to get a better response. Think of it as like a little system. A prompt template is like a little system. You understand the power of systems. Systems are critical in any business. And as accountants, as bookkeepers, our brains are wired to be systematic in our thinking. And so a prompt template. Just think of it as a little mini system designed to get you a predictable, better outcome in less than so we have these two types of prompts. Sometimes a quick prompt is fine, but the prompt template is the one that's going to be a mini system that we can use over and over again. So you'll want to start to build up, if you haven't already, a library of these prompts. Why a library? Because, like any system, you're going to want to access them really quickly.