AI Quick Tips 261: Prompt template with best practices baked in
This prompt template is technically for Google’s Gemini 3 model but I think that it is relevant for many other models.
This prompt template is technically for Google’s Gemini 3 model but I think that it is relevant for many other models.
If you read through Google’s Gemini API docs then you have probably already seen most of what will be in this post. After thinking about it, most people don’t read through Gemini’s API docs and, I would guess that, a lot of people don’t even know what API docs are.
Looks like a pretty good deal if you qualify.
Some of these may be hard to accept (or you may not accept them), but I’ve found that the faster I’ve accepted them, the faster I’ve been able to level up my skills with these tools.
If you are past the stage of starting to use genAI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc., and you want to work towards getting outsized returns on your time, then this post is for you.
Most people that use AI tools have figured out that the tools can create more content faster than a human can. The people that are getting the best returns on their time are creating systems that can be repeated and scaled. They combine human and AI resources.
True to the name, these are some quick tips to think about when using AI chatbots to help you get better output:
Here is another prompt framework that you may find useful.
Reading posts and watching videos and attending workshops are all nice, but at some point, you have to build things. This doesn’t have to mean code from scratch (it can mean that too, though), it can mean build a custom GPT, or even build a complex prompt that can...
Google didn’t waste any time responding to GPT-5.1, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and everything else dropping lately.
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