The Prompt: Generic to Specific
Namaste — this is Liam, in for Bear. The Prompt: Generic to Specific. A generic prompt gets a generic video. The skill is naming your project, your result, your figure, and your one idea. Let me show you how the specifics change the output.
The Prompt: Generic to Specific
Namaste — this is Liam, in for Bear. The Prompt: Generic to Specific. A generic prompt gets a generic video. The skill is naming your project, your result, your figure, and your one idea. Let me show you how the specifics change the output.
Topic: BRUTALIST — OPEN SOURCE
Chapters
0:00 Introduction 0:13 Act 1 0:25 Act 2 0:39 Act 3 0:53 Act 4 1:06 Act 5
YOUR TURN
@NikBearBrown
Sources and citations: see the reel's SOURCES.md in the open textbook.
▶ The full series playlist — Brutalist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG9H-C6rp5RU
What this video covers
- 0:00 — Introduction
- 0:13 — Act 1
- 0:25 — Act 2
- 0:39 — Act 3
- 0:53 — Act 4
- 1:06 — Act 5
Transcript
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Introduction
[0:00] Namaste, this is Liam in for Bear. The prompt, generic to specific. A generic prompt gets a generic video. The skill is naming your project, your result, your figure, and your one idea. Let me show you how the specifics change the output. There is a generic seed prompt
Act 1
[0:14] In every skill. MD, it works. It produces a video, but it produces the average video about your topic, the one Claude would make for anyone. Your job is to steer it away from average. Name
Act 2
[0:25] Your project and your result, not a machine learning model, a gradient boosted tree that predicts hospital readmission at 24 hours, not my research, my paper showing that X causes Y in condition Z. The specific noun is the first filter.
Act 3
[0:39] Name the figure worth showing. Every good video has one chart, one diagram, one demo that earns its place because nothing else could make the idea visible. Name it in the prompt. If you cannot name it, you do not know yet what the video is actually about. Name the
Act 4
[0:53] One idea the viewer should leave with. One sentence. Not machine learning is important, a model that predicts 70% of readmissions costs less than one admission. That sentence is the verdict. Build the whole video to land it. In the
Act 5
[1:06] Build prompt, MD for any brutalist video, you will see the line persona, Liam for this channel. If you are building a video for your own channel, change that to your name. Claude says Bear because that is what the prompt says. The field is yours. The verdict, generic in, generic out. Name the project, the result, the one figure, and the one idea. Those four fields move the prompt from a template to a brief. The video improves exactly as much as the prompt does. Your turn, fill in this prompt and paste it to Claude. Build a brutalist AI explainer video for my folder. The project is specific name. The result is specific finding. The figure worth showing is chart or diagram. The one idea the viewer should leave with is one sentence. Persona, Liam in for Bear. Channel, @nickbearbrown. That is the build brief. Fill in the brackets from your own work and Claude will build a video that is actually about your project. The prompt, generic to specific brutalist @nickbearbrown, Liam in for Bear.
