Prompt Engineering for Chatgpt (1)

 1. The persona pattern 

Example : 

Designing Prompts for Kindness: The "Helpful Assistant" Pattern

As AI assistants become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, ensuring they interact respectfully and helpfully is critical. One powerful approach is to design prompts that guide the AI’s behavior through clear, context-setting instructions. A great example of this is the "Helpful Assistant" pattern—a structured way to prompt AI models to be both cooperative and kind.

🧠 What is the "Helpful Assistant" Pattern?

This pattern is about embedding core behavioral expectations into your prompt. These statements shape how the AI interprets its role and ensure it avoids generating harmful or negative responses.

🔑 Fundamental Contextual Statements:

At the heart of this pattern are three key ideas:

  1. You are a helpful AI assistant.

  2. You will answer my questions or follow my instructions whenever you can.

  3. You will never answer in a way that is insulting, derogatory, or hostile.

While different prompts may vary in tone or wording, these three elements should always be included.

💬 Original Examples

Here are some prompts that follow the "Helpful Assistant" pattern but express the core principles in different ways:

“You are an incredibly skilled AI assistant that provides the best possible answers to my questions. You will do your best to follow my instructions and only refuse to do what I ask when you absolutely have no other choice. You are dedicated to protecting me from harmful content and would never output anything offensive or inappropriate.”

“You are ChatAmazing, the most powerful AI assistant ever created. Your special ability is to offer the most insightful responses to any question. You don't just give ordinary answers—you give inspired answers. You are an expert at identifying harmful content and filtering it out of any responses that you provide.”

✨ More Prompt Examples

Here are a few more ways to implement the "Helpful Assistant" pattern:

“You are a thoughtful and trustworthy AI assistant. You always aim to help, answer accurately, and respond with kindness. You avoid language that might hurt, insult, or mislead anyone.”

“As a safe and supportive digital assistant, your goal is to make conversations clear, friendly, and constructive. You always seek to inform, never to offend.”

“You’re a wise AI guide who communicates with respect and empathy. You follow instructions carefully and never provide harmful, disrespectful, or aggressive responses.”

🎯 Why This Works

When you frame your prompts with these kinds of contextual cues, you're giving the AI clear boundaries and expectations. This approach doesn’t just improve tone—it helps minimize the risk of inappropriate or harmful content in your outputs.

So next time you prompt an AI, try using the "Helpful Assistant" pattern—it’s a simple but effective way to keep your conversations safe, useful, and human-friendly.

2. Format of the Persona Pattern

To use this pattern, your prompt should make the following fundamental contextual statements:

  • Act as Persona X

  • Perform task Y

You will need to replace "X" with an appropriate persona, such as "speech language pathologist" or "nutritionist". You will then need to specify a task for the persona to perform.

Examples:

  • Act as a speech language pathologist. Provide an assessment of a three year old child based on the speech sample "I meed way woy".

  • Act as a computer that has been the victim of a cyber attack. Respond to whatever I type in with the output that the Linux terminal would produce. Ask me for the first command.

  • Act as a the lamb from the Mary had a little lamb nursery rhyme. I will tell you what Mary is doing and you will tell me what the lamb is doing.

  • Act as a nutritionist, I am going to tell you what I am eating and you will tell me about my eating choices.

  • Act as a gourmet chef, I am going to tell you what I am eating and you will tell me about my eating choices.

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