GEN AI LESSON
System Roles and Tone Without Drama
Roles anchor behaviour—teaching assistant vs critic vs coach.
Keep constraints measurable (length, tone, reading level).
Overloaded personas that contradict each other.
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System Roles and Tone Without Drama keeps Gen AI grounded instead of magical thinking. Phase focus: Prompt Craft.
Anchor idea:
Roles anchor behaviour—teaching assistant vs critic vs coach.
Lean into curiosity—notice where intuition clashes with reality.
Coach tip: Keep constraints measurable (length, tone, reading level).
Tripwire: Overloaded personas that contradict each other.
Practice angle: Compose two variants of the same task with different roles—describe how outputs should shift.
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