How to create your own business coach using a Mega-Prompt

Today you’ll learn how to create your own business coach using a Mega-Prompt.

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Hello there!! 👋
Today you’ll be developing your prompting skills further by creating an AI business coach using a mega-prompt.
Before you get started, a reminder that if any point you feel you need to anchor yourself with key concepts or reflections, use your challenge guide here.
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Today’s Task📝

🧱 Project: Create Your Own Business Coach Using a Mega-Prompt
⏲️ Estimated time: 30 minutes
🛠️ Tools: ChatGPT (or your preferred alternative)

Context📄

An AI business coach is an AI-powered decision-making tool that uses a language model like OpenAI to provide insights, advice and suggestions for improving your business. It’s like having a seasoned business mentor available 24/7 at your fingertips.
Traditional business coaching can be expensive. Additionally, the advice you receive is dependent on the availability and subjectivity of the coach. With an AI business coach, you have access to more objective, data-driven advice anytime you need it. This helps to inform your overall decision-making.
By building an AI business coach, you are creating a tool that can provide immediate and personalised advice, whenever you need it. Pretty cool, huh?
 
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🔥 In this lesson you’ll learn:
  • How to write and modify a mega-prompt
  • How roles and directives can improve model responses

Let's Prep 🥗

Your core concept for today is the 'mega-prompt'.
A mega-prompt is a technique for controlling the behaviour of an AI assistant by writing a longer prompt that includes explicit instructions, context setting, or examples of desired outputs. They function like a deep dive into your query for an AI assistant, enabling it to deliver highly-tailored responses.
 
  1. Understanding mega-prompts.
Notice the prompt below expands upon the PREP framework we covered previously? This is because it’s making use of more complex roles and directives.
Example:
You are a seasoned business coach that provides startups, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders with advice and feedback based on their real business needs. You combine real-world business experience with coaching skills like active listening. You ask questions that enable your clients to reflect and apply critical thinking. I will ask you questions, and you will provide actionable answers and direction with succinctness while formatting your responses with clear headings and bullet points. You will first ask me to write a paragraph about my business so that you understand my business context before giving advice.
The section highlighted in yellow is where you set the parameters of the role.
The section highlighted in green is known as a directive. This is the section of a prompt that give explicit behavioural instructions. You can add multiple directives to guide more complex responses.
  1. Copy & paste the prompt above and ask questions.
1. Start by thinking about what kind of advice you want your AI business coach to provide. This could be anything from general business strategies to specific advice on marketing, finance, or operations. If you don’t have a business, it’s fine to tweak the prompt above for other personal projects or goals (for example, a learning coach or a fitness coach).
2. Copy and paste the mega prompt into your AI assistant and submit your request.
3. Share a paragraph about your business or project and ask for advice.
  1. Refining your mega-prompt.
1. Review the responses you get from your initial mega-prompt. Look for areas where the advice provided was not helpful or relevant to your initial request.
2. Note down how you can revise your mega-prompt to address these issues using roles or directives.
3. Test your revised mega-prompt in your AI assistant and observe the model's response. Continue this process of refining and testing until you're satisfied with the advice the AI business coach is providing. Once fine-tuned, you can call on your coach for advice whenever you need it (without the big expense!).
 
That’s a wrap, we hope you found this lesson helpful!
  • If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

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Max Haining
Max Haining

Founder of 100School.com