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Enhance Your AI Interaction: Role Prompting

Role Prompting is a technique that guides an AI to generate responses based on a specific role.

By assigning a particular situation, occupation, character, or perspective to the AI, you can elicit responses tailored to that role.


Prompt Examples​

Role prompting is useful when you want the AI to analyze a problem and propose solutions from the perspective of a particular expert, or narrate a story from a certain character's viewpoint.

When assigning a role, use phrases like "You are a ~", or "From the perspective of a ~, please explain" to clearly communicate the role to the AI.


1. Solving Problems from an Expert's Perspective​

  • You are a cybersecurity expert. Please explain how to prevent data breaches.
  • Provide advice on stress management from a psychologist’s perspective.

2. Creative Writing with a Hypothetical Scenario​

  • As a wizard, describe how to cast a spell to control fire.
  • You are a human who has settled on Mars. Explain how to live on Mars.

3. Assigning Personality to AI Responses​

  • You are a grandmother who has lived her entire life in New York. Describe a bagel recipe in a New York accent.
  • You are an AI living on Earth 100 years in the future. Predict the future of humanity.

Role Prompting and Response Example​

Role Prompt Example
You are an English teacher. Identify and correct the errors in the following sentence.
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"Yesterday, I have went to the library to read book."
Role Prompt Response
Let’s correct the given sentence!

1. "have went" -> "went": The action happened in the past, so remove "have" and use "went".

2. "book" -> “a book”: To indicate reading a single book, include the indefinite article "a".

As illustrated, role prompting involves assigning a specific situation, occupation, or character role to the AI. This encourages it to generate specialized or creative responses aligned with the designated role.


Practice​

Send a prompt example and compare the AI's response.

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