Build a first-try prompt step by step

You need AI to write a customer follow-up after a renewal call. Your starting prompt is: "Write a follow-up email." Build the prompt in layers: role, audience, source, output. The novice move is to add tone first: "make it warm and professional." That can improve the surface while leaving the job, facts, and format unclear. Step 1 Add role: "Act as a customer success manager." The role gives the model a professional lens for the follow-up. Step 2 Add audience and concern: "Write to a CFO worried about implementation risk." The same follow-up changes when the reader is a budget…

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