ACTIVITY 01 / Prompt craft
The persona swap
Separate a useful task from the role, voice and formatting you give an AI.
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ACTIVITY 02 / Prompt craft
Examples that teach the format
Use labelled demonstrations to obtain consistent complaint summaries.
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ACTIVITY 03 / Prompt craft
Reverse-engineer a writing blueprint
Describe the structure of a text and use it to write an original piece.
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ACTIVITY 04 / Vision & image editing
Test visible-expression labels
Build a labelled image test and distinguish an expression from a person’s emotion or identity.
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ACTIVITY 05 / Vision & image editing
Build an honest fruit-classifier test
Design balanced training and held-out sets and identify background leakage.
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ACTIVITY 06 / Learning & reasoning
The explainer that earns your trust
Adapt an explanation to different readers without changing the underlying facts.
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ACTIVITY 07 / Data & structures
A spreadsheet formula you actually test
Turn a plain-language lookup requirement into a formula and test missing and duplicate IDs.
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ACTIVITY 08 / Assistants & workflows
From voice memo to accountable actions
Separate transcription errors from action-item extraction errors.
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ACTIVITY 09 / Vision & image editing
One scene, three visual styles
Control a visual experiment by changing only the style instruction.
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ACTIVITY 10 / Creative production
The logo iteration loop
Translate vague feedback into testable visual constraints.
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ACTIVITY 11 / Assistants & workflows
Build a bounded editing assistant
Configure an assistant that reviews text without silently rewriting it.
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ACTIVITY 12 / Assistants & workflows
Build a moderation review queue
Flag text for human review while separating insults, disagreement and quoted material.
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ACTIVITY 13 / Verify before you trust
Translation without false confidence
Use independent checks to identify meaning changes and unresolved ambiguity.
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ACTIVITY 14 / Research & evidence
Extract figures with page evidence
Extract numerical facts without losing units, scope or page references.
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ACTIVITY 15 / Workplace writing
Build your own writing style profile
Extract reusable stylistic preferences without copying private or identifiable material.
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ACTIVITY 16 / Research & evidence
Reconcile two accounts without inventing consensus
Separate shared facts, real contradictions and unmentioned details.
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ACTIVITY 17 / Design & decisions
From AI mockup to usable wireframe
Turn an image concept into a labelled, testable interface plan.
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ACTIVITY 18 / Creative production
Direct a spoken explanation
Compare voice delivery while keeping script, consent and meaning constant.
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ACTIVITY 19 / Verify before you trust
Debug a tiny page with evidence
Ask for a minimal repair, then compare actual browser rendering.
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ACTIVITY 20 / Learning & reasoning
Stress-test an argument politely
Use counterarguments to find assumptions, not to outsource your judgement.
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ACTIVITY 21 / Prompt craft
Check reasoning with an external answer
Compare answer-only and concise-explanation prompts against a known reference.
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ACTIVITY 22 / Prompt craft
Build a prompt contract, not a mega-prompt
Combine role, context, constraints and format without burying the actual task.
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ACTIVITY 23 / Learning & reasoning
Make a concept map you can correct
Turn a technical description into a labelled flow without confusing order and causation.
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ACTIVITY 24 / Data & structures
Classify feedback with an uncertainty bucket
Create a small labelled feedback set and inspect false positives.
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ACTIVITY 25 / Workplace writing
Match a résumé without inventing experience
Find evidence gaps between a fictional résumé and a role description.
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ACTIVITY 26 / Design & decisions
A simulated interview is a hypothesis machine
Use a fictional persona to generate questions for real research, not fake validation.
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ACTIVITY 27 / Vision & image editing
Test competing visual instructions
Separate wording emphasis from model-specific prompt weighting syntax.
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ACTIVITY 28 / Vision & image editing
Expand an image without pretending it is evidence
Review generated extensions for continuity and fabricated context.
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ACTIVITY 29 / Assistants & workflows
Design an automation with a stop button
Map trigger, transformation, review and action while handling duplicates and missing data.
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ACTIVITY 30 / Learning & reasoning
Translate jargon without changing the claim
Make a technical statement understandable without inventing business impact.
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ACTIVITY 31 / Learning & reasoning
Find connections without inventing history
Distinguish an analogy, a documented influence and a factual relationship.
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ACTIVITY 32 / Research & evidence
Stress-test a source-backed summary
Check whether a citation really supports the claim beside it.
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ACTIVITY 33 / Research & evidence
Audit framing without declaring perfect neutrality
Separate verifiable claims, opinions and rhetorical framing.
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ACTIVITY 34 / Workplace writing
Untangle an email thread into decisions
Identify the latest decision, owner and deadline without treating every suggestion as agreement.
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ACTIVITY 35 / Research & evidence
Read a paper without overselling it
Separate research question, method, result and real-world applicability.
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ACTIVITY 36 / Workplace writing
One fact set, three audiences
Change tone and emphasis without changing dates, responsibility or uncertainty.
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ACTIVITY 37 / Design & decisions
Build an FAQ from unanswered questions
Anticipate difficult questions without inventing policies or reassuring answers.
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ACTIVITY 38 / Workplace writing
Fight corporate fog with concrete verbs
Rewrite a vague announcement while exposing missing decisions.
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ACTIVITY 39 / Verify before you trust
Run a fair mock interview panel
Practise evidence-based answers without treating a simulation as a hiring prediction.
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ACTIVITY 40 / Verify before you trust
Turn a contract into questions for a professional
Flag clauses and missing terms without declaring legal validity or giving legal advice.
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ACTIVITY 41 / Data & structures
Make notes navigable with Markdown
Organize notes while preserving quotations, deadlines and unknowns.
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ACTIVITY 42 / Data & structures
Ask for a regex, then attack its assumptions
Turn a fuzzy matching request into explicit positive and negative test cases.
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ACTIVITY 43 / Data & structures
From book notes to validated JSON
Distinguish valid JSON syntax, a data shape and a formal JSON Schema.
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ACTIVITY 44 / Verify before you trust
Read a SQL query against known totals
Translate a data question into a query and check boundaries against a tiny fixture.
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ACTIVITY 45 / Assistants & workflows
Explain an API with success and failure paths
Map a request and response without exposing credentials or inventing a service’s internals.
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ACTIVITY 46 / Creative production
Chain a visual brief without losing control
Turn a descriptive idea into a concise image brief, then inspect instruction drift.
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ACTIVITY 47 / Creative production
Direct negative space with a measurable brief
Use object size and position as composition requirements rather than vague adjectives.
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ACTIVITY 48 / Creative production
A three-frame story with continuity
Translate a short narrative into consistent visual briefs and inspect change across frames.
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ACTIVITY 49 / Design & decisions
Measure contrast instead of trusting a mockup
Test actual foreground/background colours and document what contrast cannot prove.
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ACTIVITY 50 / Design & decisions
Turn a synthetic focus group into a real test plan
Use varied constraints to brainstorm hypotheses while avoiding fake participants and reactions.
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