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Set a Role and Audience: AI Prompt Exercises

Claude gives much better answers when it knows your situation, who it should act as and who the answer is for. These exercises practise giving it that context. These 10 exercises build up step by step, starting with run a mock interview, profit vs cash flow, explained, get a sceptic's view.

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1

Run a Mock Interview

Free

Write a prompt asking Claude to act as a hiring manager and run a mock interview for a customer-service role, asking one question at a time.

What a good prompt includes
  • the role for Claude (hiring manager)
  • the job (customer service)
  • one question at a time

Tell Claude to act as a hiring manager, say the role is customer service, and ask it to wait for your answer after each question.

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2

Profit vs Cash Flow, Explained

Free

Write a prompt asking Claude, acting as an accountant, to explain the difference between profit and cash flow to a small-business owner with no finance training.

What a good prompt includes
  • the role (accountant)
  • the topic (cash flow vs profit)
  • the audience

Ask Claude to act as an accountant, name the topic (profit vs cash flow), and the audience (a small-business owner, no finance background).

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3

Get a Sceptic's View

Free

Write a prompt asking Claude to play a sceptical investor and pick holes in your startup idea: a meal-kit service for office workers.

What a good prompt includes
  • the role (sceptical investor)
  • the idea
  • the task (find weaknesses)

Ask Claude to be a sceptical investor, describe the meal-kit idea, and ask it to find the weaknesses.

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4

Tutor a Teenager

Write a prompt asking Claude to act as a patient maths tutor and explain percentages to a 14-year-old, ending with a quick question to check they understood.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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5

One Outage, Two Audiences

Write a prompt asking Claude to explain a 2-hour website outage twice: once for engineers (technical) and once for customers (plain and reassuring).

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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6

Hire a Strict Editor

Write a prompt asking Claude to act as a strict copy editor and tighten a paragraph you'll paste, cutting it by about half without losing the meaning.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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7

Practise Asking for a Raise

Write a prompt asking Claude to act as a negotiation coach and help you ask for a pay rise. You're a marketing executive who has been at the company for 2 years.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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8

Role-Play a Frustrated Customer

Write a prompt asking Claude to role-play a frustrated customer so new support staff can practise handling calls. Say what the customer is frustrated about.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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9

Brief a Busy CEO

Write a prompt asking Claude to rewrite a project update for a busy CEO: lead with the decision you need, and keep it under 100 words.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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10

Ask a Safety Officer

Write a prompt asking Claude to act as a workplace health-and-safety officer and list the top 5 hazards in a small warehouse, with one fix for each.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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