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In your experience with GenAI, how has refining a prompt drastically changed the output quality?

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Sarah Philbrick
PMI Team Member
Director, Learning Design & Development| PMI Asheville, NC, United States

With Generative AI, iteratively refining and optimizing prompts can lead to better AI-generated results. This may involve adjusting the specificity or clarity of the prompt to increase relevance and accuracy of results.

What examples do you have of how improving a prompt drastically changed the output quality?  What specific changes did you make that led to the improvement?

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Emma Brown Australia
Yes, it helps hereby the initial outputs serve as checkpoints as well, allowing you to be the human in the loop. The first few responses/artifacts demonstrate the AI is aligned with your project context and goals.
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Blanca Bordaberry Lambaré, , Paraguay
Improving a requirement drastically changed the quality of the result. Using specific changes to refine the requirement, such as those used in agile methodologies, user stories consist of three main components:
  • User (which allows us to specify the user type)
  • Goal (what the user wants to do or what problem they want to solve)
  • Value (how important it is for the user to achieve this goal)
The most common templates for user stories are:
As a ..., I want to... so that...

  • As a customer:
  • I want to save my shipping address
  • so I don't have to enter it next time.
Who-What-Why
  • Who: Customer
  • What: Save shipping address
  • Why: Save time during the checkout process
This process helps to achieve better results, and it's good training for refining prompts.
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Nedal Dudin Project Management Consultant and Educator| Trace Consulting Ltd Amman, Amman, Jordan
Chaining the prompt using CREATE is powerful technique
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Lisa Davis Shorewood, MN, United States
I don't have much experience with prompt engineering (which is why I'm here). I generally word-vomit everything on my mind and then take the output and ask for specific revisions. I have never worried about providing too much information - I've always had better luck providing lots of context and details. I wait to see what comes out and go from there. I have a lot to learn here.
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Anonymous

It has helped me better manage my tasks and team assignments. The AI has condensed my notes after meetings to better streamline communication.

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AAMINAH KAMRAN Pakistan
Refining a prompt turns average output into high-quality results.

  • Vague prompt → generic answer
  • Clear, detailed prompt → precise, useful answer


Adding context, audience, tone, and format helps the AI understand exactly what you want, reducing errors and improving quality instantly.

👉 In short: better input = better output
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RAMAKRISHNA RAJU ALLURI Sr Project Manager| Novartis Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Providing the context and clear requirement gives a more accurate output. I tried to change some of the parameters and see if the output improves. Over multiple iterations the output is better and improved.

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RAMAKRISHNA RAJU ALLURI Sr Project Manager| Novartis Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Providing the context and clear requirement gives a more accurate output. I tried to change some of the parameters and see if the output improves. Over multiple iterations the output is better and improved.

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Valentina Alexandra Yauri Gonzalez Vallauris, Pac, France
Hello,

I tried to be more precise giving a clear scope and output format, this training will allow me to improve my scenario with CREATE and ARF pattern
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Declan Doonan Virginia, CN, Ireland
I am very new to Gen AI, however with 30 plus years in industry, I can truly see the benefits of prompt refinements to get more accurate results. In my experience, I liken it to the way humans learn, its through iterative processes and continual refinements to provide the best solution. Except Gen AI never gets tired, stressed or overwhelmed !!
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