Comment by bevr1337
4 hours ago
This is a skill I learned as a coffee shop supervisor and youth camp counselor, and now I really practice it on Slack with half-interested product owners.
- Always describe tasks in the positive. (Never describe tasks in the negative.)
- DO guide the user safely. DO NOT use DO NOT because the reader already DID.
- Give guided choices based on your expertise.
- Asking two-or-more questions results in one-or-less answers.
- Conditionals are also questions, so you only get one.
I only use AI agents and tools for work, I don't create them, so I'm not a subject matter expert. Where I've anthropomorphized the tools highlights my own misunderstandings.
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