The ten prompt patterns every knowledge worker should know — companion videos

Jeff Su

Six-part formula — task, context, exemplars, persona, format, tone — explained with the same office-work examples the article uses (workout plans, resumes, internal emails). Watch this first; almost every pattern in the article is a focused application of one of these six components.

What you should get from this: You can assemble task, context, exemplars, persona, format and tone into working prompts for everyday office tasks.

Watch or know first: None — watchable cold.

Tina Huang

The prompting chapter (02:30–09:20) lays out two stackable mnemonics — "tiny crabs ride enormous iguanas" (task, context, references, evaluate, iterate) and "ramen saves tragic idiots" (revisit, separate, try analogous, introduce constraints) — that map cleanly onto the iterate-and-refine patterns in the article. Useful when a single-shot formula isn't getting you there.

What you should get from this: Recognize reusable prompt patterns and combine them into clearer instructions, examples and evaluation steps.

Watch or know first: The primary pick's six-part formula — this builds on it when one-shot prompting stalls.