Designing Conversational AI — Prompt Library

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Designing Conversational AI — Prompt Library

11 prompts.
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Every prompt from the book, organised by chapter and ready to copy directly into your AI tool of choice.

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11 prompts across 7 categories

01

Intent Mapping

Use these before you design a single response. Intent mapping is where conversation design actually begins — understanding what users are trying to do, in their own words, before you decide what the system should say.

02

Dialogue Design

Use these when you're writing actual exchanges. The goal is conversations that feel like relationships, not forms. These prompts help you design for multi-turn flows and for the moments that fall outside the happy path.

03

Voice and Writing

Use these when you're defining how a conversational product sounds, or when you need response options to evaluate. Voice is a design decision — these prompts treat it like one.

04

System Prompt Engineering

Use these when you're writing or reviewing the instructions that shape how an AI model behaves. A system prompt is a design specification — these prompts help you build and audit one properly.

05

Evaluation and Quality

Use these when you're setting up a way to measure whether your conversational product is working. Building the benchmark and the scoring criteria are design tasks — these prompts help you do both.

06

Testing and Iteration

Use these when you're planning how to test a conversation before it's built, or when you're reviewing what went wrong after it shipped. Both are design activities.

07

Career and Positioning

Use these when you're moving into conversation design or making the case for your background. The field needs what product designers bring — these prompts help you position that clearly.

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