AI Studio & Authoring Prompts

Now that you’ve set up your Google Cloud account, in this lesson you’ll learn tips about creating good prompts for generating text using Gemini.

You can use prompts to generate text with Gemini. The Gemini home page is a starting place to chat with Gemini and experiment with prompts. For more advanced prompt engineering, you’ll use AI Studio.

Understanding AI Studio

Gemini AI Studio is a more advanced and developer-focused platform compared to the regular Gemini console. It offers a complete platform for building, deploying, and managing machine-learning models. It also focuses on using Google’s Gemini family of large language models.

In AI Studio, you can leverage more advanced features like:

• Train and fine-tune models, track experiments, and collaborate with team members.
• Deploy models to different environments.
• Change parameters easily when experimenting with prompts.

AI Studio is a powerful tool for prompt development. It provides a safe sandbox to experiment without affecting live apps.

Authoring Prompts

Authoring prompts is the most important skill to develop when using generative AI. Here are some helpful tips and techniques:

• Develop prompts iteratively: Practice makes perfect. If a prompt doesn’t generate the desired results, make small adjustments to it. Observe how they affect the AI’s output. AI Studio allows you to easily run multiple versions of your prompts and compare the results.
• Experiment with different parameters: AI models in AI Studio often have parameters you can adjust, such as temperature.
• Be clear and specific: The more specific and well-defined your prompt, the better the AI will understand your intent. This will help you avoid ambiguity and vagueness. If you need a certain format or tone in the output, explicitly mention it in the prompt.
• Provide context: Give the AI some context for the task. If you want a creative story, set the scene and provide details.
• Use clear instructions: Use direct language to guide the AI. For example, instead of, “Can you write a song?” say, “Write a song about…”
• Break down complex tasks: If you have a complex request, consider breaking it down into smaller prompts.
• Use examples: If you have a specific style or format in mind, provide the AI with an example.
• Use system-level instructions: Few models in the AI Studio let you give system-level instructions. These can be used to set the overall behavior or tone of the AI.
• Define the format of the results: Be specific about how you want the results to be formatted. For example, bulleted lists, tables or JSON are valid formats that the AI can display results in.
• Review and refine: Always review the AI’s output critically and refine your prompts accordingly.

The quality of the AI’s output is directly related to the quality of your prompts. Invest time in crafting clear, specific, and well-structured prompts. You’ll see a big improvement in the AI’s responses. Here is a guide from the documentation that has many more examples.

Now that you know how to write good prompts, in the next demo, you’ll learn how to create prompts and tune a model in AI Studio.