AI Prompts As Silent Daggers
Every word is a silent dagger.
Communication is the signal between humans.
What about the signal to machines?
The words have an edge.
Plain Text Machine Code
AI prompts are text.
Clear for humans:
What is the capital of Australia?
Or:
List key moments in Albert Einstein's life.
Plain English for the machine.
AI processes it. Letter by letter.
It doesn't understand.
It finds a context from its previous training.
The clearer the context, the sharper the cut.
Every prompt is a blade. Some cut. Others just tear.
Multiple Slits For More Precision
GPT models are "chats".
Not a web search.
Not a DuckDuckGo.
Not StackOverflow.
Leverage this capability.
Build the conversation iteratively.
Revisit.
Clarify.
Refine.
One long prompt is just noise.
Stick to clear cuts - unseen, precise, deliberate.
One Chat - One Mission
Again: clarity.
One chat. One topic. One mission.
Change topic mid-conversation - you create entropy.
Confuse the AI. Increase the noise.
Lose the thread, lose the edge.
This will cause noise in the answers too.
Shifts - and you lose control of the edge.
Just like Linux tools: One Chat. One Mission. One Clean Cut.
Format And Tone - The Shape Of The Blade
AI can wear any mask.
Friendly teacher.
Strict tutor.
Academic assistant.
You must tell it the tone, the style.
The ghost it should become.
And the output format:
- Plain text output?
- A PDF file?
- An image file?
- Markdown format?
If you don't state it - you won't get it.
The blade takes the shape you define - or it cuts where you didn't intend.
Final Thoughts
AI is not good or bad.
It's trained on human data - your data.
It's only as good as your prompts.
Approach it strategically.
Phrase with intent.
You sharpen the blades - the prompt.
The AI delivers the cut.
Every word counts at the start. Every cut matters at the end.
[ The signal ends here. DeadSwtich is out ]