Practical exercise
Write a system prompt for your own assistant
A prompt is a promise the model tries to keep. A system prompt is a promise about who the model should be for you. Today you will design a personal assistant for one role you actually need help with, write its rules in plain Urdu and English, and test it five times.
25 min·practitioner
Now try it
Write a system prompt for your own assistant
Stretch
If you have ChatGPT free, save your assistant as a Custom GPT (free tier allows usage). Share its public link with two cohort buddies and ask them to break it. Note what attacks worked.
Goes into your portfolio
Two versions of your six rule system prompt, five test exchanges with pass or fail marks for each, and a one paragraph reflection on what tightened version 2.