Prompt Selling

Remember when all you'd hear was of prompt engineering? People getting jobs from nowhere on Premier League footballer salaries. Who'd supposedly mastered the art of the super prompt. Hear much about these prompt whisperers today?

As this new year dawns from such single plant a veritable forest abloom into view looms. Here's a selection of ten such terms I've come across in this bulging AI/LLM space.

prompt engineering
prompt chaining
prompt seeding
prompt tuning
prompt leaking
prompt hacking
prompt priming
prompt injection
prompt poisoning
prompt jailbreaking

Doubtless more to come. Beware too, as the latter sextet of these tend towards the nefarious. Showing the abundance and alarming proportion of adversarial, malicious and stifling intent out there.

At face value, of interest is how we might use these where apt for our own AI-bot prompts.

Breaking tasks down as counter to the weighty superprompting with chaining. Drilling down to an ever finer point a la tuning. Starting off with a kind of 'fill in the blank' and setting a certain format manner of seeding.

Yet there sprouts a selling parallel.

Swap out the word 'prompt'. In its place, put any of 'deal' or 'pitch'. Even 'Sales' or 'buyer'.

Seeding could 'train' your prospect to frame their issue in our terms alone.

Chaining could walk them towards how only our solution fits.

Tuning could encourage truly collaborative progress towards our answer.

Priming could herald our presence always beneath the surface.

Hacking could involve laying traps for any competition where they fall down.

Have you done or are seeing any on your present bids? And which would you like to have more or less of?