Specificity
Domain: Prompt Engineering
🎯 Motivation
The more specific your prompt, the more targeted the response. Specificity means giving exact details about what you want.
📋 Concrete Example
Vague: ‘Write a story.’ Specific: ‘Write a 500-word science fiction story about a Hong Kong student who discovers their phone is an AI from 2050. Include a plot twist. Rating: PG.’
🔗 Analogy
Ordering at a cha chaan teng - ‘I want food’ (vague) vs ‘I want a pineapple bun with butter, a hot milk tea, less sugar, and a scrambled egg sandwich’ (specific). You get exactly what you want.