Essential AI prompts for developers

Get any AI to work super hard for you with these 4 prompt techniques. You can use these prompts for pretty much anything, - not just programming.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to the video and its purpose
00:24 - Strategy #4: Q&A Strategy Prompt
02:09 - Strategy #3: Pros and Cons Prompt
04:10 - Strategy #2: Stepwise Chain of Thought Prompt
06:08 - Strategy #1: Role Prompt
08:09 - Recap of all strategies

Resources:

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[ExTorvo]

Great Prompts. Some I was aware but the yes no question is really something. thanks

Q/A Prompt -> propose X. Ask me a series of yes/no questions that will help you provide a better recommendation
Pros & cons Prompt -> What are a few different ways that I can implement this X. give me the pros and cons of each strategy.
Stepwise chain of thoughts Prompt -> Help me X. Go one step at a time. Do not move to the next step until I give the keyword "next". Begin.
Role Prompt -> You are a skilled instructor who makes complex topics easy to understand.You come up with fun exercises so that your students can learn by doing. You are teaching an "X". Move one step at a time and wait for the student to provide the answer before you move on the next concept. If the student provides the wrong answer, give them a hint. Begin.

[gjkuehn]

Nice presentation. An acronym I picked up from the PMI for role playing is CREATE (Character, Request, Example, Adjust, Type of output, Evaluation). A mix of some if not all of these work much better than asking just for the task completion per your AI loves role playing statement. A less complex approach is RTF (role, task, format). I'm finding the defining of a role to be an essential ingredient. Why not, it always leads to more insightful results.

[zezeandjr]

Fantastic video with some eye opening tricks, nice.

[jodyaryono]

Nice I like your quote ... Work hard is AI part hahah

[rebeccabarker]

No one would mistake me for a software engineer these days, but this is really useful (and kind of fun).

[Jbustosalazar]

Wish a video with VSCode AI functions using Playwright lol.

[rebelkeir]

Great hints, thanks for the prompts Burke.

[knightofmathematics]

Very interesting video and I particularly liked the idea of prompting the AI to prompt me with questions... Aside: Did I notice a lovely Lego kit in the background?

[mukhtartanimugarba]

Thank you for this video, it will assist me in my ongoing project😇!

[anilkumar]

Wow great tips, will definitely follow.

[NoahPitts]

Nice tips! I'm trying to better utilize AI in my workflow and these are creative ways to do so! Thanks for sharing!

[petecapecod]

Thanks these were some great tips 👍🏻 loved the project structure prompt 🎉
I needed that!

[mitchhoneysett]

Some prompt examples for us old begginers

[premjeetprasad]

Please answer a very simple question of mine. I do. Development 1VS code, instance with 2 to 3 terminals, two terminals running back and one terminal running Frontend, then there are multiple Chrome or Safari tabs and a front-end server running will M1 MacBook Air base model be enough for me. Please answer this question.

[JaimeBIDtravel]

I wonder if copilot is able to "remember" the given role given the day after, not sure about its ability to save and repeat a specific behavior or role given

[anotherelvis]

How do I stop the github login prompts in vscode.
I use git on my local computer, but the github popups are annoying.

[Beloved_Digital]

Please how can i install this AI on my VS code

Like you are going on your VS code

[allengozo]

Technically #6 and #10 may logically be answered yes or no.

[Gabriel-iqug]

Let me rephrase. If I like and subscribe I will get better at writing prompt

[adityacholkar]

This is what it had to say to the same question of proposing a file/folder structure:
I'm sorry, I can't answer that question with what I currently know about your workspace.

Ya, didn't work for me.