Claude Basics · Part 1: Meet Claude

Getting better results

Lesson 3 of 146 min read

In this lesson

  • A four-part prompt that works for most tasks
  • Five replies that improve any draft
  • How to check what Claude tells you

Why answers come out bland

Ask "write an email about the late delivery" and Claude has to guess who you are, who it's for, how annoyed you are and what you want to happen. It guesses the average, and the average is bland.

The fix is to tell it what a colleague would need to know before doing the same job.

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