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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
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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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Stephanie Blake Senior Project Management| Empower Belton, MO, United States
It has provided a completely different answer and result! It is important to make sure to refine your search criteria if the result does not look accurate!
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Deepak Malhotra Leader - Customer Success| Cisco Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Absolutely, refining a prompt has made a significant difference in the quality of GenAI output. In my experience, even small adjustments like clarifying the context, specifying the desired format, or adding role-based instructions can dramatically improve the relevance and precision of the results.

For example, when generating a project risk summary, a vague prompt returned generic risks. However, when I rephrased it to: "Act as a senior project manager for an IT rollout. List top 5 risks specific to integration with legacy systems, in bullet points with mitigation plans.", the output was not only accurate but directly usable in a stakeholder presentation.

This experience reinforced that prompt engineering is like briefing a smart assistant; the clearer your ask, the better the outcome.
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Bridgette Brihm United States
In my experience with GenAI, refining a prompt drastically changed the output quality by providing a more concise response that tailors to the result needed in my project.
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Anonymous
I see a tremendous improvement
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Nina Miranda Denver, Co, United States
In my experience, there's definitely a big improvement when I add more context to my prompt while breaking the tasks down into manageable pieces so as not to overwhelm the task with too much complexity.
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NYABETA KENYANSA PROJECT MANAGER| SEURECA EAST AFRICA LTD Nairobi, 30, Kenya
How to use prompt Engineering to scheduling models for WBS
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NYABETA KENYANSA PROJECT MANAGER| SEURECA EAST AFRICA LTD Nairobi, 30, Kenya
How to use prompt Engineering to scheduling models for WBS
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Adegoke Obembe Senior Project Manager| rEvolution Sports Marketing Group
With a refined prompt, I have always experienced a better response from LLMs, making it more useful for my project planning and execution.
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Olivia Smith Project Associate| Kemin Human Health & Nutrition Pleasant Hill, IA, United States
Our company has a very restrictive AI policy and has only recently granted permission to use Co-Pilot in our daily work, therefore my experience with other LLMs has been limited to personal applications. I hope to incorporate prompt engineering with Co-Pilot into my daily work in the coming days and weeks and see how it goes.
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Nicholas Andriola East Longmeadow, MA, United States
This discussion thread has really helped me with some of my AI prompts. Its helping me refine my skills.
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