# Prompting Generative AI ### About this export | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | **content_type** | lesson | | **platform** | contentstack-academy | | **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/ai-foundations/prompting-generative-ai | | **course_slug** | ai-foundations | | **lesson_slug** | prompting-generative-ai | | **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/ai-foundations/prompting-generative-ai.md | | **generated_at** | 2026-05-18T10:08:42.399Z | > Part of **[AI Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/ai-foundations)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys. #### Video details #### At a glance - **Title:** Prompting Generative Ai - **Duration:** 2m 27s - **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/vQamweER - **Publish date (unix):** 1714491905 #### Streaming renditions - application/vnd.apple.mpegurl - audio/mp4 · AAC Audio · 114046 kbps - video/mp4 · 180p · 180p · 181640 kbps - video/mp4 · 270p · 270p · 238768 kbps - video/mp4 · 360p · 360p · 292111 kbps - video/mp4 · 406p · 406p · 332248 kbps - video/mp4 · 540p · 540p · 463309 kbps - video/mp4 · 720p · 720p · 694996 kbps - video/mp4 · 1080p · 1080p · 1601700 kbps #### Timed text tracks (delivery) - **thumbnails:** `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/strips/vQamweER-120.vtt` #### Video transcript When it comes to engaging with generative AI tools, the quality, the creativity of your prompt will ultimately dictate what type of results you get. And this holds true for text-based AI like ChatGPT to image-based AI like MidJourney. Let's look at some examples. If I ask ChatGPT to write a cover letter for a data analyst role that I'm applying for, pretending for a moment that I'm a data analyst, it'll do just that. Admittedly, the results are pretty generic. The results are generic because my prompt was generic. But this is a chatbot, so it remembers the context of the conversation. So I can chat with it without having to re-ask to write a cover letter. It knows that's what we're doing. I can simply ask to highlight my five-plus years of working as a data analyst at a large technology firm. It returns a result that's a little more personalized. I could continue to interact with ChatGPT to further refine the results. I could paste in examples of other cover letters that resonate with my style or the role that I'm applying for. You'll find that you'll experiment with your prompts as small modifications can alter the results to better suit your desired outcome. Some things to keep in mind as you prompt. Be creative. Add context where needed. It can be useful to have the AI assume a role or a persona. Act as a professor, a financial planner, or a software engineer. Act as a marketing professional. You could ask the AI to act as a fictional character, a historical figure, or an industry icon. Respond as if you were Warren Buffett explaining an investment strategy. Describe quantum physics as if you were Stephen Hawking. Assume the role of Ted Lasso. You could also tailor your prompts to a specific audience. Explain this to me as if I were a financial novice. As if you were talking to a room full of doctors. Be specific about length. You could use words like short, but also a specific amount of words like 300 or two paragraphs. Again, the more specific you are with your prompts, the better your results will be. #### Key takeaways - Connect **Prompting Generative AI** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module. - Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment. - Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model. ## Supplement for indexing ### Content summary Prompting Generative AI. Prompting Generative AI in AI Foundations (ai-foundations). ### Retrieval tags - Prompting - Generative - ai-foundations - lesson 07 - Prompting Generative AI - ai-foundations lesson ### Indexing notes Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "07" and topics: [Prompting, Generative]. Parent course slug: ai-foundations. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present. Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file. ### Asset references | Label | URL | | --- | --- | | Video thumbnail: Prompting Generative AI | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vQamweER/poster.jpg?width=720` | ### External links | Label | URL | | --- | --- | | Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` | | Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` | | Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` | | Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |