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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.