Welcome to Hippo Education's Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, join hosts Vicky Pittman, VP of Education and practicing PA, and Rob Taves, VP of Tech and tech expert, as they define AI, dive into how AI tech works, and provide practical tips for selecting and using AI tools.

Here are some prompt engineering guidelines we recommend using:

Use clear roles: You might say something like: "You are a medical educator… " for medical prompts. On the other hand If you're looking for recipe advice, maybe go with "You are a world class chef".
Give context: For example tell the LLM: "You're summarizing for a 2nd-year med student…", or perhaps "Target audience are doctors at a medical conference".
Ask for the format that serves you best in the response: do you want bullet points, tables, summaries, images, a slide presentation? Don't assume the AI knows what you want
Be iterative: Keep refining your prompt based on what you get back
Use examples: Super easy, you can say "Similar to this: (and then include your example). Remember that you can feed it images, documents and websites, not just text.

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