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Claude AI Claudeai Prompting — practice questions

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Claudeai Prompting questions and exercises with answers

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Where should the role description live in a prompt?Read the answer and worked solution →Best way to stop Claude from hallucinating about a doc?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three slots make a useful prompt?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the TASK slot in a prompt contain?Read the answer and worked solution →A prompt says 'Explain quantum physics'. What is MISSING?Read the answer and worked solution →Sort a prompt into its three slotsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Where should the role description live in a prompt?

  1. Right after the task description, as a postscript
  2. Only inside the user message, never the system
  3. Before the task, as the first thing Claude reads
  4. It does not matter where it lands in the prompt
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Correct answer: C. Before the task, as the first thing Claude reads

Claude reads top-down placing the role first primes the response style for everything that follows.

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Best way to stop Claude from hallucinating about a doc?

  1. Raise the temperature so output is more creative
  2. Use a smaller model to reduce capacity for invention
  3. Add 'be accurate' to the system prompt
  4. Paste the doc and ask only about its contents
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Correct answer: D. Paste the doc and ask only about its contents

Grounding the model in a pasted source forces it to answer from the text, not training memory the most reliable cure for hallucination.

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Which three slots make a useful prompt?

  1. Topic, Length, Language
  2. Task, Context, Format
  3. Subject, Verb, Object
  4. Input, Model, Output
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Correct answer: B. Task, Context, Format

Card 1 names the three slots: TASK (what to do), CONTEXT (who and why), FORMAT (shape of the reply). Source: claude_constitution_ocr.md, pages 11-12.

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