Guides to learn how to write prompts

Free tutorials to write better prompts: what a prompt is, how to structure it, prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, images and video, common mistakes and advanced techniques.

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• What is a prompt and how does it work

  A prompt is the instruction you give an artificial intelligence. Learn its parts, why the result depends so much on how you write it, and how to get started.

• How to create a prompt from scratch

  A 6-step method to go from a vague idea to a clear, reusable prompt, with a complete end-to-end example.

• How to write effective prompts

  Ten practical principles to write prompts that work on the first try more often: clarity, specificity, examples, format and review.

• How to write prompts for ChatGPT

  Practical tips to get more out of ChatGPT: message structure, custom instructions, long conversations, files and reviewing answers.

• How to write prompts for Claude

  How to write prompts for Anthropic's Claude: direct instructions, rich context, long documents, tags for structure and requests for reasoning.

• How to write prompts to generate images

  The structure that works best in Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Flux or Firefly: subject, style, light, composition and parameters, with examples.

• How to write prompts to generate videos

  How to describe a shot for Runway, Kling, Sora or Veo: one subject, one action, camera movement, light and mood. And how to plan multi-shot videos.

• How to improve a bad prompt

  A diagnostic process to find out why a prompt is not working and how to fix it, with a before-and-after example and a prompt to let the AI help you.

• What are variables in a prompt

  Variables turn a prompt into a reusable template. Learn how to define them, name them and use them on HomeCasa Prompts.

• What is context in a prompt and how much to give

  Context is the information the AI cannot guess. Learn what to include, what to avoid and how to organize documents and data inside a prompt.

• How to define roles in a prompt

  What telling the AI “act as…” really does, how to choose a good role, combine it with concrete criteria and avoid roles that do not help.

• How to structure prompt instructions

  Numbered steps, delimiters, sections and logical order: how to organize a long prompt so the AI does not skip anything.

• Good and bad prompt examples

  Eight comparisons of real prompts for text, code, image and video, explaining what fails in the bad version and what the good one improves.

• Common mistakes when writing prompts

  The ten most common prompt-writing mistakes and how to avoid them: from missing context to blindly trusting the answer.

• Advanced prompting techniques

  Few-shot examples, step-by-step reasoning, prompt chaining, self-critique, structured outputs and evaluation: techniques for more reliable results.