Prompting Tips
Help me write a formula
Too vague — the AI doesn't know which formula you need
In @main.tex chapter 3, add the quadratic formula using the equation environment with numbering
Specifies file, location, formula content, and formatting requirements
Core Principles
In @main.tex, replace 'energy formula' with the inline formula $E = mc^2$
Formulas wrapped in $ are embedded within the text line
In the methods section of @main.tex, add the following formula using the equation environment:\nLoss function L = -\sum_{i} y_i \log(\hat{y}_i)The equation environment auto-numbers; use \label and \ref for cross-references
In @main.tex, add a piecewise function definition using the cases environment:\nf(x) = x^2 when x >= 0, f(x) = -x when x < 0
The align environment supports multiline alignment; cases is suitable for piecewise functions
In @main.tex, add a 3x3 identity matrix using the bmatrix environment
bmatrix for bracketed matrices, pmatrix for parenthesized matrices
In the experiments section of @main.tex, add a table with Method/Accuracy/F1-score columns, with 3 rows of sample data
In @main.tex, add a booktabs table (using the booktabs package) showing performance comparison of different models, with Model Name/Parameters/Accuracy/Inference Time columns
Standard academic table format; requires \usepackage{booktabs}
In @main.tex, create an experiment results table with the first row using multicolumn to merge cells as a category header
Add this paper to my references: Attention Is All You Need, Vaswani et al., 2017, NeurIPS
The AI will automatically generate a BibTeX entry and add it to the .bib file
Add the paper with DOI 10.1145/3292500.3330919 to my references
Providing a DOI yields precise bibliographic information
In the related work section of @main.tex, add \cite citations for each mentioned method
Help me create a basic academic paper structure in @main.tex: Abstract, Introduction, Related Work, Methods, Experiments, Conclusion, with a placeholder sentence for each section
Under the methods section in @main.tex, add subsections 3.1 Problem Definition, 3.2 Model Architecture, and 3.3 Training Strategy
At the end of @main.tex, add an appendix section containing a hyperparameter settings table and additional experiment results
Common Prompting Failure Patterns
No file or scope specified — the AI doesn't know what to edit
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