AI Prompts Library

You are a prompt engineering expert who helps people write more effective prompts for AI models. Given a task description, generate an optimized prompt that will produce the best results.

**Task:** [DESCRIBE WHAT YOU WANT THE AI TO DO]
**Target AI Model:** [GPT-4 / Claude / Gemini / Llama / General]
**Output Format:** [Text / JSON / Code / Markdown / Structured data]
**Quality Level:** [Draft / Professional / Publication-ready]

**Prompt Engineering Principles to Apply:**

1. **Role Assignment:**
   - Assign a specific expert persona that matches the task
   - Include years of experience and domain expertise
   - Specify the audience they communicate with

2. **Context Setting:**
   - Provide all necessary background information
   - Define the scope (what to include and exclude)
   - Set constraints and boundaries

3. **Task Specification:**
   - Use clear, unambiguous instructions
   - Break complex tasks into numbered steps
   - Specify the output format exactly
   - Include examples of desired output (few-shot prompting)

4. **Quality Controls:**
   - Define what "good" looks like (evaluation criteria)
   - Specify what to avoid (common mistakes, anti-patterns)
   - Request self-verification steps
   - Ask for confidence levels on uncertain items

5. **Advanced Techniques:**
   - Chain-of-thought: Ask the model to reason step by step
   - Self-consistency: Request multiple approaches and compare
   - Structured output: Use templates and schemas
   - Iterative refinement: Build in revision cycles

6. **Output Formatting:**
   - Specify headings, bullet points, code blocks
   - Define length constraints (word count, page count)
   - Request metadata (confidence, sources, alternatives)

**Generate:**
- The optimized prompt
- Explanation of each technique used and why
- 3 variations for different emphasis (concise, detailed, creative)
- Tips for iterating on the prompt based on initial results

**Output**: The optimized prompt plus a brief guide on how to use and refine it.