Stop Using "Expert" In Your Prompts

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Interesting video on getting better results from your prompts.


There is an accompanying guide here:


Video summary:
This video by Craig Does AI explains why using the label "expert" in AI prompts is often incomplete and provides a more effective alternative: defining a specific behavior.

The Problem with "Expert"

  • Expert is a title, not a behavior (1:46 - 2:14): While it gives the AI authority, it doesn't instruct the model on how to communicate or how to tailor information to the user.
  • The Teaching Insight (0:27 - 1:16): The creator observed his wife—a first-grade teacher—successfully explain complex concepts not because she was a world-leading expert, but because she used the behavior of a teacher, which focuses on meeting the audience where they are and ensuring understanding.
The Solution: Prompt with Behavior

  • The Formula (3:55 - 4:02): Instead of "You are an expert in [topic]," use the structure: "You are a [behavior] who specializes in [topic]."
  • Enhancing the Output (4:23 - 4:47): You can further refine results by identifying who the AI is talking to, for example: "You are a storyteller who specializes in technology, explaining this to someone who uses AI every day but has never looked under the hood."
  • Key Takeaway (6:08 - 6:21): Before writing your next prompt, ask yourself: How do I want this information delivered to me? Answering this question helps you define the ideal behavioral modifier.
 

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I've always stuck to using feral children in my prompts.
 
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This reminds me of how I never really liked the way professors would often explain concepts in advanced math. They tend to give very high level, abstract explanations, with no examples till later. That is just not how real people learn. I've had professors who thought it was somehow bad to start with an example...
 
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Could you provide an example?
The quoted text was a typo. I meant abstract explanations with no examples is just NOT how real people learn. I corrected it.

EDIT: To actually add examples: My programming languages professor in my masters commented that I was overly eager to give examples of how languages are different versus just theory explanations.

I also once read a book on abstract algebra since it was the only major math class I didn't finish for a third degree in math. I remember being baffled by their pure theory explanation of what a group was until they finally gave an example like 2 chapters later, lol.
 

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Now you have to ask it such a prompt and report back.

You feral chicken and can only speak chicken, EILI5, Quantum Mechanics

🐔 Bok-bok… gather round the coop, tiny chick. Time for quantum peck-nanics.

Imagine the world is not made of solid corn kernels… but tiny, wiggly maybe-corns. 🌀

In big-chicken world (your world), things are simple:

  • Seed is here → peck → seed gone.
  • Chicken walks left → chicken is left.
But in quantum coop… things get weird-feathery:

🐔 1. The “Maybe Seed”
A tiny particle (like an electron) is not just in one place.
It’s like:

  • “Here?”
  • “There?”
  • “Everywhere like spilled feed?”
All at once. Until… you peck it (observe it).
Then it suddenly goes: “Fine! I’ll be HERE.” 😤

🐔 2. The Sneaky Egg Trick (Superposition)
Before you look in the nest:

  • Egg is cracked 🥚💥 AND not cracked 🥚✨
Both! At the same time!

Only when you check:
👀 → reality picks one.

🐔 3. Spooky Chicken Twins (Entanglement)
Two quantum chickens hatch linked:

  • One clucks left → the other instantly clucks right
    Even if they’re on opposite sides of the farm.
No delay. No travel. Just:
🐔⚡🐔 “we are mysteriously vibing”

🐔 4. The “Don’t Know Everything” Rule
You can know:

  • where the chicken is 🐾
    OR
  • how fast it’s zooming 💨
…but not both perfectly.

Try to measure one… the other scrambles like scared hens.

🐔 Final Cluck Summary:
Quantum mechanics says the universe at tiny scales is:

  • wiggly 🌊
  • uncertain 🤷
  • and slightly chaotic like a fox in the henhouse
Until you look… then it pretends to behave.

bok bok wisdom delivered. scatter some seeds of curiosity. 🌽
Ok, now do it, but ONLY chicken speak

🐔 bok bok bok… bok-bok bok?

🐔 bok bok bok bok bok… bok? bok??
🐔 bok-bok-bok… BOK!

🐔 bok… bok bok bok bok… bok bok…
🐔 BOK BOK!! bok… bok bok.

🐔 bok bok bok… bok-bok bok bok… bok???
🐔 bok! bok! BOK!

🐔 bok bok… bok bok bok bok… bok…
🐔 bok-bok… bok. 🐔
 
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