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Compound Prompts
You've learned how to build a context. Now you use that context to make the AI write the prompt that creates the thing. One conversation to generate the instructions. A second conversation to execute them.
By the end of this module: you've described something you want to create, built a context that asks the AI to generate the best possible creation prompt, and executed that prompt in a fresh conversation. You submit the context and the generated prompts — not the final output.
In Module 3 you learned that a well-built context produces a much better result than a direct question. Now take that one step further: instead of writing the creation prompt yourself, you ask the AI to write it for you.
This is compound prompting. Conversation one: give the AI context about what you want to create and ask it to write the optimal prompt. Conversation two: take that prompt, open a fresh chat, and execute it. Two conversations. Better result than either would produce alone.
You know what you want. The AI knows what kinds of instructions produce good outputs from AI tools. Combining those two sources of knowledge in sequence gets you closer to a one-shot result than either approach alone.
Use the Context Builder from Module 3. Describe what you want to create — the thing itself, the purpose, the audience, the constraints. Put it all in the content section.
Your instructions section asks the AI to generate the best possible prompt to create what you described. The AI produces one or more prompt options.
Copy the generated prompt. New chat window. Paste it in and run it. The fresh context means the AI isn't carrying your planning conversation into the creation conversation.
Not the final output — what you submit is your planning context and the prompts the AI wrote. That's where the learning is.
Image generation is a clean illustration because the gap between a mediocre prompt and a good one is immediately visible. The technique applies to any creative or generative task — writing a report, building a slide deck outline, drafting a proposal, generating code.
The AI returns three ready-to-use image prompts. You pick the one that best fits what you envisioned, open a fresh chat in an image generation tool (or a multimodal AI), paste it in, and generate your image. The planning conversation stays separate. The creation conversation starts clean.
Your submission is the compound context you built and the prompts the AI generated. Not the image, not the final output — regardless of what you create. The submission captures your thinking process, not the result.
Choose something you actually want to create. It doesn't have to be an image — it can be anything: a written piece, a plan, a design brief, a code outline, a presentation structure. The only requirement is that it's something you'd genuinely use, and that the AI is going to write the creation prompt, not you.
Something real. Something you'd actually use or want to exist. The more specific your vision, the better the generated prompt will be.
Build your compound context: role (prompt-writing expert for your medium), content (what you want to create and why), instructions (write me the best prompt to create this).
Copy the full output. This is your planning conversation. The AI has now written you one or more creation prompts.
New chat. Paste in one of the generated prompts. Execute it. See what you get. You can try more than one if you want.
Not the final output. The context and the prompts the AI wrote.
Modules 1–4 make up Discover AI. By completing this module you've covered the core skills: understanding the tools, shaping language deliberately, building context, and using the AI to generate the instructions that create things. Everything in Business Basics builds on these four foundations.
Two things: the context you built, and the prompts the AI generated from it. Not the final output.
The persona you set for the AI — the prompt-writing expert.
What you described wanting to create.
How you directed the AI to write the creation prompt.
Paste the AI's full response from your planning conversation — all the prompts it generated.
Describe which of the generated prompts you chose to execute, and briefly why.
One or two sentences. Did the AI-generated prompt produce a better result than you'd have written yourself? What surprised you?
This completes Discover AI. Your work has been saved. Keep this file for offline reference.