Prompt Evolution: RTF (Role – Task – Format)

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📌 PROMPT EVOLUTION: Exploring AI Frameworks
🎯 Today’s focus: RTF (Role – Task – Format)

🔹 What is RTF and why does it matter?

The RTF framework (Role – Task – Format) is one of the core principles in prompt engineering.
It helps you structure your prompt in a way that guides AI to give you focused, clear, and useful results.

📌 How does it work?

You define:

1️⃣ Role → Who is “speaking”? (Expert, analyst, consultant)
2️⃣ Task → What should AI do? (Analyze, strategize, write)
3️⃣ Format → In what form? (List, table, essay, code)

🔍 Example (basic version):

You are a marketing expert. Create a competitor analysis in list format.

💡 What’s wrong with that?

❌ Too vague → surface-level output
❌ No analysis criteria → unclear direction
❌ No structure → hard to use the result

🔥 RTF improved: more context, more clarity, better output

✅ Updated prompt:

You are a digital marketing expert. Analyze 5 competitors in my niche and evaluate their content strategy, strengths, and weaknesses.
Present the results in a table with the following columns:
| Competitor | Marketing Channels | Key Features | Weaknesses | Recommendations |

📌 What’s better now?

✔ More detail → AI understands exactly what to analyze
✔ Clear structure → easy-to-use output
✔ Specific criteria → filters out noise and delivers value

💡 Bottom line:

Old prompt → Unstructured, shallow response
RTF 2.0 → Focused, structured, actionable insight ready for business use

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