Prompt Engineering Cheat Sheet
Prompt Engineering Cheat Sheet
Engineering
Use the following process to help
engineer your prompts.
Examples
Pre-priming Instructions Audience Output
You are [role or General tips Basic Basic
profession]: • Be clear and • University • A list of
▪ A university concise. Avoid open students recommendations
student ended instructions. Specific • Sentence
▪ A facilitator • If you were to get a • My startup customer, • Paragraph
▪ Steve Jobs human to perform a project manager in • Table
▪ A professor who the task, what construction. • Email
is an expert on information would • Lecturer at UNSW Specific
partical physics. they need? Detailed • Python code
Tones • Copy and paste • John, an engineering • Business case
▪ Formal bodies of text for friend for many years • Technology
▪ Causal context about the at UNSW. I know him proposal
▪ Technical product, person, quite well and he Detailed
▪ Creative organisation, etc. appreciates a bit of • A 2 hour workshop
▪ Energetic • Add specific light hearted humour. runsheet including a
▪ Positive examples or • A student team workshop name,
▪ Humourous scenarios related to working on a medical summary, required
▪ Supportive the question. imaging startup in setup, and a detailed
Give the AI exemplars • Add constraints or the UNSW health 10x runsheet with times,
▪ Emulate the preferences. accelerator. content, and
following writing ▪ Time • You can even create activities.
style: ......... ▪ Budget an entire persona to
▪ Accessiblity use as the audience!
▪ Culture