Get the Best Answers: The Refinement Loop

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    Treat the first output as a rough draft, then edit and refine it with a second, third, and fourth prompt.

    • Vague requests like "make it better" or "try again" do not help, so name what is wrong and say what the AI should do instead.
    • The AI tends to agree with you, so ask for the information you need to decide, and then ask it for flaws in your decision.
    • The loop has a ceiling, so if a chat gets worse after about 20 messages, ask for a summary and start a fresh chat with it.
    • Save the corrections that work so you can reuse them.

    Example: Say, "The second paragraph is too generic, so replace it with the actual number from the document I gave you."