The R-C-T-F recipe | Master AI Automation in 4 hours Master AI Automation in 4 hours Course About Ayush Modules Sample chapter Toolbox The Microcap Minute Module 02: Talking to Machines: Prompting / Chapter 2 The R-C-T-F recipe Watch first, then read.
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What you will learn - The four ingredients present in nearly every great prompt - How role-setting changes vocabulary and depth - Why format instructions save the most time of all Here is a recipe simple enough to memorise today and use for the rest of your life: R-C-T-F .
R, Role: who is answering?
Start with: "You are a ___." Telling the model who to be changes which patterns it reaches for.
"You are a patient physics teacher for a 12-year-old" pulls up simpler words, analogies, encouragement.
"You are a strict journal reviewer" pulls up scepticism and structure.
Same brain, different hat.
Roles also set standards : "You are a careful editor who hates filler words" gives the model something to be faithful to.
C, Context: what does it need to know?
The facts of your situation.
Paste the actual material, the essay, the error message, the data, the constraints ("I have ₹500", "deadline tomorrow", "reader is my grandmother").
From Module 1: anything not on the desk gets guessed.
Context is you putting things on the desk.