Prompt Engineering · Guided project
Build Your Personal Prompt Library — Guided Project
Ten tested, reusable prompts for study, coding and job hunting — saved in a document you will actually use every week.
- Beginner
- ~2 hours
- 5 steps
The brief
The best prompt engineers do not write prompts from scratch every time — they keep a library of prompts that already work. In this project you create ten prompts for your real tasks, test each one, improve it at least once, and save the final versions with notes on when to use them.
Skills you will use: Prompt structure · Few-shot examples · Iteration
Build it
Step by step
Tick each step as you finish it. 0 of 5 done.
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Step 1List your tasks
Write down ten tasks you repeat: revision notes, explaining code, interview practice, emails, LinkedIn posts…
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Step 2Write version 1
For each task write a prompt with role, context, task and format.
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Step 3Test and improve
Run each prompt on a real example, diagnose what is wrong and write version 2.
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Step 4Add examples where needed
For tasks that need a fixed style, turn the prompt into a few-shot prompt.
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Step 5Organise
Save the final prompts in Notion, Google Docs or a notes app with a one-line "use this when…" note.
Self-review before you call it done
Tick each point once your project really meets it. These are the things an interviewer will look for.
Check all 4 points, then mark the project as finished.
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