Here's how to write an effective AI prompt, according to Anthropic

Anthropic has a new guide on how to prompt.

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• Writing good prompts is one of the most important skills of the AI era.
• Anthropic just released a guide on how best to do it.
• One tip is to think of its chatbot, Claude, as "a brilliant but very new employee (with amnesia)."

One of the most lucrative corporate skills these days is effective prompting — making requests of chatbots to get what you want — but it's not as easy as it sounds.

Chatbots are like children.