A short spoken segment (YouTube video) by Justin R. Lester explaining how more detailed prompts produce better, more strategic AI outputs. He contrasts generic requests with role-specific prompts (e.g., 'marketing strategist') and gives an example of requesting a three-month social media plan for a sustainable coffee brand targeting millennials.
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Think about it if you always want the most popular thing is it always the right thing? That's not necessarily so. If you ask it for a basic marketing response, a basic preaching response that's what you're going to get. But if you say you're my marketing strategist offer me sustainable coffee brand targeting millennials, give me a three month social media plan with daily post ideas and simple captions now it's pausing, it's thinking differently because it's thinking like a marketing strategist. So now it's not only going to research marketing it's going to research strategies to research culture it's going to research coffee it's going to research sustain it's going to research scalability it's going to think about social media it's going to think about all the tools that coffee we get on that work with social media it's going to think about the people you're trying to reach it's going to do all of that and now you're cooking.