Tips & Tricks

Prompt engineering is not an exact science, and sometimes getting an AI to do what you want can seem more like dumb luck than anything else. You get surprised, positively as well as negatively, when it oneshots something you thought it would struggle with or when it messes up something rather trivial.

Nevertheless, we will try to give you a few tips and tricks to get higher quality output from the AI in Henosia.

Less is more

It can be tempting to cram as much as possible into a prompt before submitting it, but often it is not a good idea. The more the AI has to cope with at once, the higher the risk it will fail. It isn't very good at breaking a large task down into smaller subtasks and then solving those one by one. It is therefore better that we do that on its behalf.

For instance, rather than ask

Please use the authentication data from Supabase on the site

instead start by asking

Please change the content of this button from the current mock data "John" to the name of the person logged in via Supabase.

Once this task is solved, continue with every other place on the site you want it to use Supabase data.

Granted, this means more prompts to get to the result you're after (no mock data), but also a higher chance of success and less risk of breaking your project.

Specific vs. Vague

Depending on whether you have merely a vague idea or something very specific in mind you want Henosia to build, your prompts should reflect this. If you want something specific, give as specific instructions as you can:

• Don’t just write a color name, give an actual color code for the color
• Provide the font, font type or font family you want
• Define the exact spacings you want
• Provide an image, if that helps understand what you want built, and provide the context for the picture:
  • Should it focus on the color scheme?
  • Or the layout?
  • Or something else?
• Provide the exact labels, fields, buttons, etc. you want
• Define the order elements should appear in and how they should align

If on the other hand you merely have a vague idea, Henosia can be creative and inspire you, if you do not tie its hands with specific details, and it may come up with a much better first draft than you could have though of yourself.