Use and in your AI prompt chain to refine the responses

Mark Anthony Germanos said:

Hi gang,

I want to follow-up the Partner Conference Atlanta Practical AI for Instructors: Lessons Learned session from Thursday August 1. This time, I am talking about refining prompts.

Use and in your AI prompt chain to refine the responses​

You can use and in your AI prompts to refine the responses your favorite AI engine gives you. I am using Perplexity.AI, which lets you follow-up prompts. You may prompt Perplexity “tell me the 10 largest cities in the United States,” get the response and follow-up with “and tell me each city’s population from the 2020 census.”

Perplexity.AI lets you follow-up prompts.

CIA Triad in Cybersecurity​

Let’s step into the world of cybersecurity. I am showing how to tweak Perplexity AI’s response to “Tell me about the CIA Triad in cybersecurity.” Perplexity. AI replies with:


Perplexity also gives me headings and supporting paragraphs for Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.

I follow-up by prompting “and write at a 6th grade reading level” This basically means creating shorter sentences with shorter words, thus making the response more understandable. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch–Kincaid_readability_tests for more. Perplexity’s response begins with:


Perplexity’s new response is easier to read and more conversational….

I follow-up with “and in under 250 words.” Perplexity returns a shorter response. So far, we are prompting:

• Tell me about the CIA Triad in cybersecurity.
• and write at a 6th grade reading level
• and in under 250 words

But wait, there’s more. I follow-up further with “and give me this information in bullet points.” Perplexity. AI delivers, with a response in bullet points. Each heading has four entries. I prefer three. Therefore…

I follow-up with “and make sure each bullet point list has only three entries.” I get bullet points again, but this time each entry has only three supporting entries. All the text looks the same. Therefore…

Final Result​

I follow-up with “and bold the first word in each bullet point entry.” Perplexity gives me a final result I can embrace and utilize elsewhere. That response is:


With and follow-up prompts, you too can follow-up Perplexity. AI responses and generate verbiage you can embrace and use elsewhere.

Thread​

I am sharing the entire thread at: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/tell-me-about-the-cia-triad-in-cggSS5XETk6.l.AlF0T9Uw#5. You can get a Perplexity Pro $10 discount at https://perplexity.ai/pro?referral_code=Z5IL6KZ7.

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