Companion videos

Ten prompt patterns for everyday knowledge work — companion videos

The article catalogues ten reusable prompt structures for tasks such as drafting, critique, analysis, rehearsal, and structured output, with validation built into the workflow. The two videos below offer a compact formula and a broader mnemonic-based framework. Treat both as starting structures to test, not universal recipes.

Primary pick

8:30

Master the Perfect ChatGPT Prompt Formula (in just 8 minutes)!

Jeff Su

Six-part formula — task, context, exemplars, persona, format, tone — explained with office-work examples such as workout plans, resumes, and internal emails. It provides a compact frame that overlaps with several of the article's patterns.

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.

AI Expert note: Watch it before the article's patterns if you want a compact frame, then use the article to separate that frame into task-specific patterns and validation habits.

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Also worth watching

25:58

Every Essential AI Skill in 25 Minutes (2025)

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.

AI Expert note: Only the 02:30-09:20 prompting chapter is on-topic here; the rest of the video is a broader AI-skills tour you can save for later.

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