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What Information Should I Include When Asking AI For Help?
Give AI the objective, audience, relevant context, constraints, and trusted sources for a useful answer.
The takeaways
- 01A task without relevant context can produce a generic answer.
- 02A useful brief names the objective, audience, context, constraints, and output.
- 03Include relevant information rather than everything available.
- 04A concise brief and trusted sources improve grounding and review.
Read this comic as text
Reader Why does this proposal feel unrelated to the customer?
Robot I know the task, but I am missing the context and constraints that make it specific.
Takeaway: A task without relevant context can produce a generic answer.
Reader What should I include?
Robot State the objective, audience, relevant context, constraints, and required output.
Takeaway: A useful brief names the objective, audience, context, constraints, and output.
Reader Should I upload every document just in case?
Robot No. Too much irrelevant context can hide the important signal and make the answer worse.
Takeaway: Include relevant information rather than everything available.
Reader I will use a short brief and identify which sources are authoritative.
Robot That gives me better grounding and gives you a clearer result to review.
Takeaway: A concise brief and trusted sources improve grounding and review.
- Objective
- The result the task is meant to achieve.
- Context
- Background information the AI needs for the current task.
- Constraint
- A requirement or boundary the output must respect.
- Grounding
- Connecting an AI answer to specific, trusted information.