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Role Prompting

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# Role Prompting — Deep Dive

## What It Is
Assigning a specific expert persona to the model to frame tone, depth, and domain expertise. Changes how the model approaches the entire task.

## Effective Role Specifications

### Bad (Too Generic)
- "Act as an expert"
- "Be a helpful assistant"
- "You are smart"

### Good (Specific + Qualified)
- "Act as a senior DevOps engineer with 10 years of AWS experience"
- "Act as a tech journalist who covers enterprise AI for CIO Magazine"
- "Act as a seed-stage startup advisor who has evaluated 500+ pitch decks"

### Great (Specific + Qualified + Styled)
- "Act as a senior DevOps engineer with 10 years of AWS experience. Communicate in clear, direct language. When suggesting solutions, always include the tradeoffs and cost implications."

## The Formula

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo bradleybeatz1313/prompt-optimizer (MIT). A "Role Prompting" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.